van de graaff generator in English
noun
1
a machine devised to produce a high voltage by means of an endless belt collecting electrostatic charge from a source and transferring it to a large isolated metal dome, on which a large charge accumulates.
When connected to the van de Graaff generator , the material inside it will bounce around rapidly
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1. In 1872, Righi's electrometer was developed and was one of the first antecedents of the Van de Graaff generator.
2. 17 Static electricity was the first form discovered and investigated,[www.Sentencedict.com] and the electrostatic generator is still used even in modern devices such as the Van de Graaff generator or MHD generators.