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Vehicles carrying inflammable material usually have metallic ropes touching the ground during motion. Why?

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Moving vehicles get charged due to friction. This will produce sparking and the inflammable material may catch fire. To avoid this metallic chains are used. Through these chains the charges are transferred to the earth.
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