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a material's talent for hoarding electric charge, then dumping it all at once

unitmeasured in farads, named after Michael Faraday
camera flashcapacitors stockpile energy then unleash it in milliseconds
defibrillatorsstore a jolt big enough to restart a heart
no contacttwo plates store charge without touching, only an electric field
earth scalethe planet itself has a capacitance, roughly 700 microfarads
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