Abstract
Some laboratory experiments have been performed to study the electrification of dust clouds created by blowing different types of dusts into a dust chamber. The polarity and magnitude of the space charge in such dust clouds have been found to be sensitive to the mineral constituents of the dust. Even a single dust cloud, if allowed to settle under gravity in a field-free space with no charge added to it, can have opposite polarities of space charge at different times of its sedimentation. The space charge produced increases with an increase in the length of the surface over which the dust is blown. It also increases with an increase in the temperature and velocity and a decrease in the relative humidity of the blowing air. External electric fields of up to a few hundred V/cm, applied to the surface from which the dust is blown, have little effect on the generated space charge. Size distributions of positively and negatively charged particles show a greater abundance of smaller (∼ 3 μ) particles compared to those of small neutral particles.
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