When you shuffle your feet on a carpet on a dry day, you can accumulate a charge. The fact that you accumulate a charge means that the carpet is
A) an insulator, because if it weren't, the charge would immediately leave you.
B) an insulator, because only insulators can be charged by contact.
C) a conductor, because charge cannot leave an insulator and move to you.
D) a conductor, because conductors always have extra electrons.

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Insulators, such as carpets, can hold a charge because the electrons cannot move easily through them. If the carpet were a conductor, the charge would immediately disperse, and no charge could accumulate on your body.

When You Shuffle Your Feet on a Carpet on a Dry