What happens to your hair?

Q: What happens to your hair?

It stands up toward the balloon. Rubbing makes tiny bits of static electricity, and they pull your hair toward the balloon. That same kind of spark is a tiny cousin of lightning in the sky.

It turns green
It stands up toward the balloon ✓
It gets wet

It stands up toward the balloon
Rubbing makes tiny bits of static electricity, and they pull your hair toward the balloon. That same kind of spark is a tiny cousin of lightning in the sky.

Your hair stands up toward the balloon because rubbing the balloon creates static electricity — tiny electric charges build up on its surface, and those charges pull on the charges in your hair strands, tugging them up toward the balloon.

Your hair definitely doesn't turn green or get wet from this — rubbing a balloon is a dry, electrical effect, not a chemical or watery one.

That little static spark is a baby version of lightning! Real lightning happens when huge amounts of static electricity build up inside storm clouds and then suddenly discharge.

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