from static electricity produced by rubbing amber. He coined the Neo-Latin word electricus ("of amber" or "like amber", from ???????? [elektron], the Greek word for "amber") to refer to the property of attracting small objects after being rubbed. This association gave rise to the English words "electric" and "electricity", which made their first appearance in print in Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica of 1646.

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