# #Mon Aug 09 12:08:41 CEST 2010 Text__0Nr-EKOdEd-WfYQ0GneCwQ_text=

Just as in a charged electroscope, the straws in the interior of the device are forced apart because they are loaded with an identical charge. A scale for measuring the distance between the straws indicates the intensity of the charge.

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