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Virtual Lab: Basic Charge Attraction &Amp; Repulsion (Pithballs)
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This shift of electrons gives the rod a net negative charge (that is, it now has more total electrons than it has protons).

The fur, robbed of some its electrons, is left with a slight positive charge.

 
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