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What's an electroscope? How does it work?

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  1. Adadastralgi - 16-17 years old

    Posted by Adadastralgi Apr 22nd, 2012 at 10:22PM

    It was a 19th century object that gave different elements "fingerprints" to identify them. That's how someone discovered helium. He saw a new fingerprint when looking at the sun and named it helium because he thought it was a metal (only metals and strontium and helium end in 'ium')

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