#askleo what does Benjamin Franklin mean by this: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/45515/45515-h/45515-h.htm

1. Every particle of matter electrified is repelled by every other particle equally electrified. Thus the stream of a fountain, naturally dense and continual, when electrified, will separate and spread in the form of a brush, every drop endeavouring to recede from every other drop. But on taking out the electrical fire, they close again.