Hey ,
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As some-one has already suggested that charge is
stored on the plates and that the dielectrics is a medium for the charge
transfer...
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Well may be the use of vaccum capacitors is because
of least dielectrics so that breakdown voltage is high... but this has a
trade-off that the capactiance would be low...
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Regards :-),
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--himanshu sharma
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Correct
me if I'm wrong, but didn't Ben Franklin, when he was doing his
experiments
with electricity, put to plates close together hooked up to his
static
generator, & charge them? That part I'm pretty sure is true. But
it
seems like he then could take one of the plates away for a while &
when he
put it closely back together he could then discharge it. If that's
true, how
could the charge be stored in the air separating the two,
especially when
the air was circulating, which I'm sure it was? Maybe it
was because it was
a static charge, like we get in the winter from walking
on carpet. I guess
I'll have to look back at his
experiments.
