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Cling film sticks through static and close contact
Peeling the roll strips electrons, so the sheet clings to almost any surface The film is a thin polyethylene sheet, often with a tackifier additive that makes its surface slightly sticky. Unrolling it separates the layers and leaves a static charge, which pulls the sheet against bowls, plates and itself. Because the grip depends on contact rather than adhesive, it slides off wet or greasy rims. It sits in Mondo's everyday life collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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Cling film sticks through static and close contact: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- Peeling the roll strips electrons, so the sheet clings to almost any surface. The figure is taken from Science Museum Group, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a everyday life fact?
- Yes. It sits on the Everyday Life shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
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- The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.