PIRA 5B10.25 - Confetti on a Electrostatic Generator.

• Set a styrofoam ring full of puffed wheat on the Van der Graaf generator.
  
• When you switch on the Van der Graaff, the peanuts fly out of the styrofoam ring.
  
• A variation for this demo is to request pie pans be placed on top of the Van der Graaff sphere instead of puffed wheat. Type in request under Notes: on the order blank.
  

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