Fully discharge a metal plate?

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To fully neutralize a charged metal plate, connecting it to a metal body with high capacitance can reduce its charge to negligible levels, but not to zero. High humidity can also aid in discharging static electricity to the environment. Repeating the discharge process may lower the charge probability to below that of a single electron. Accurate measurement of the charge is essential to assess the effectiveness of these methods. Ultimately, achieving complete neutralization remains challenging.
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is there any way to fully neutralize a charged metal plate ?
connecting it to metal body of relatively huge capacitance will make its charge negligible but not zero?
is there any other way?
 
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hackhard said:
is there any way to fully neutralize a charged metal plate ?
connecting it to metal body of relatively huge capacitance will make its charge negligible but not zero?
is there any other way?
High humidity in the air will help to discharge any static charge to the environment and ground...
 
hackhard said:
connecting it to metal body of relatively huge capacitance will make its charge negligible but not zero?

Perhaps repeat the process until there is a high probability of the charge being less that that of a single electron?
 
hackhard said:
is there any way to fully neutralize a charged metal plate ?
connecting it to metal body of relatively huge capacitance will make its charge negligible but not zero?
is there any other way?
I think you first need to define how you will measure the charge.
 
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