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Letter: Letters: Repel with a cause

Published 6 July 1991

From SUSANNE LEITCH and ELIZABETH SARGENT

One of our first year pupils asked, ‘Why do like charges repel?’

So, why do like charges repel, and how can it be explained to a first
year (and a chemistry teacher)?

Susanne Leitch Elizabeth Sargent Queen Anne High School Dunfermline,
Fife

Issue no. 1776 published 6 July 1991

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