What is "antistatic"

Usage examples of "antistatic".

In the spacious anteroom are three-way floor-length mirrors, a long vanity with tissues and cotton balls and individual mirrors, dispensers for lotions and astringent cleansers, little squirt bottles of antistatic and hairspray, nail buffers, a vending machine dispensing individual vials of various scents at a cost per ounce as exorbitant as if it were Parisian perfume.

She followed Griffith into a small, well-lit roomtouching the antistatic pad, and receiving the expected snap on her fingertips.

Atal, snapping on a wristband and letting its antistatic wire hang free while he struggled into new surgical gloves.

The antistatic wire still hung from his wrist but its crocodile clip no longer clasped anything.

It must be Remo, he thought, and he strode quickly across the antistatic carpet to the telephone.

Aerosol sprays, asbestos, fiberglass, building materials of various types, dry cleaning fluids, spot removers, rug and upholstery cleaners, fabric finishes and cements, antistatic agents and fabric softeners, shoe-care products, spray starch, flame retardant, furniture and floor products, detergent soaps, lead soldered pipes, gasoline, oven cleaners, drain cleaners, bleaches, toilet bowl cleaners, window cleaners, scouring powders, plastics of various types and many more common household products may injure or kill.

One after another, gathered hard drives were being tucked away for hard travel in the antistatic, airline- and gorilla-proof cases.

The box of condoms Jacob had presented Simon with the day after catching Amanda sleeping in his arms winked up at him, but it was the antistatic straps he had stashed there at some point that interested him at the moment.

Since her hard drive's manufacturer replaced its warrantied products, no questions asked, in exchange for the defunct hardware, Nic's last acts of a long day were wrapping the hard drive in antistatic plastic and boxing it for the post office.