True or False: If you rub a balloon across your shirt several times on a dry day, the balloon will stick to your shirt.

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True. If you rub a balloon across your shirt several times on a dry day, the balloon will likely stick to your shirt. This happens because the friction between the balloon and the shirt causes static electricity to build up on the surface of the balloon. The rubbing action transfers some of the electrons from the shirt to the balloon, creating a negatively charged balloon and a positively charged shirt. These opposite charges attract each other, causing the balloon to stick to the shirt.