If you decrease pressure or increase resistance, less charge will flow.
When you slide the toothbrush onto the base, the complete transformer is created and charge can flow.
Electronic band theory (a branch of physics) says that a charge will flow if states are available into which electrons can be excited.
Now charge can flow, but the first charges to move are the ones at the bottom of the wire (near the earth).
Because charge still flows (first one way then the other), useful work can still be done.
The charge will flow from high to low potential.
Any charge on the object will flow into the ground due to its mutual repulsion.
The charge was like an electric current suddenly flowing through them.
Even a small charge, like from a broken lightbulb, will flow over a suit in seconds.
The larger the value of , the farther the charge will flow.