Obviously, those little guys are very thin and of almost no weight. I can rmember as a high school student in a physics experiment that made use of gold leaf electrodes.
Two small and very thin hinged leaves of gold foil were either attracted or repelled, according to the positive or negative electrostatic charge placed across them.
Two small and very thin hinged leaves of gold foil were either attracted or repelled, according to the positive or negative electrostatic charge placed across them.



















