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When one material is rubbed against another, electrons jump readily from one to the other. why don’t protons do that?

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Protons are held inside nucleous with neutrons with large amount of force. So mere rubbing doesn't help in breaking the nucleous of an atom. But electrons are far from the nucleous and the force of attraction is smaller. So electrons can jump readily while protons can't
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