Re: Student question/trioboelectric series

[Joel Rauber <Joel_Rauber@SDSTATE.EDU>]

> Since I do not find the word "triboelectric" either in Brittanica or
> Webster's, I would ask the student what it was that he was referring
> to.  Could it be that the subject is "triboluminescence"?
>                                                 Regards,
>                                                         Jack

But it does appear in Physics textbooks, see e.g.

Intermediate level
Harnwell, Principles of Electricity and Magnetism

Introductory Level
Lea & Burke, Physics: The Nature of Things

and others  (but it isn't ubiquitous in US Physics texts)