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electrostatic effect
The lengthening of a pendulum period by an electrostatic charge on the pendulum. A non metallic pendulum such as one made of quartz picks up an electro-static charge. This results in a change in the period, but can be prevented by placing a small amount of radioactive material in the container to ionize the gas and so let the charge leak off.
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