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A laboratory study of the inductive charging mechanism has been carrie
d out, in which conducting spheres are allowed to fall through a regio
n of high uniform field in a cloud of Supercooled water droplets. The
mean charge transfer was measured and found to be of the same order as
the theoretical value for the same conditions.