Ygou can also charge objects by conduction. You’ve actually already done with without really thinking about it. The foil on the wire coat hanger in the electroscope was being charged by conduction. When you touch a charged balloon to the foil ball on the electroscope, that’s a charge by conduction. If you were to get the charged balloon really close but not touching the foil ball, that would be charging by induction. (See the difference?) Charging by conduction just means that you need to touch the electrically neutral object to the one that is charged to transfer the charge. It’s charge by contact.
With charge by induction, it’s the forces due to likes repelling and opposites attracting that cause the charge in objects. With conduction, it’s the actual movement of electrons to the object that make the charge in the object. This is obvious if you think about touching two soda cans together, since they are both made out of a material that allows electrons to move about freely within the material (on the surface of the object). But what about two insulators, like two foam plates? What happens then?
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