A positively charged atom or group of atoms is a cation. (cat-i-on)

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@Pat At least those are fairly large peanuts...

Now it's annoying when the stuff are smaller pellets and you always miss a few!

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Like from a beanbag chair. Those are impossible.

Another hard one is glitter.

@Pat And those plants whose seeds are sneakily clingy to fur, and you only start to notice it when petting them...

@Pat (Although that's got nothing to do with charges)

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@Pat I went off the line of stuff clinging to a cat's fur that is hard to remove, and deviated from the original post about clinging via static charges.

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