Abstract
Due to the complexity of issues of electrification of weakly conducting dielectric liquids a simplified (alternative) approach is proposed. One of a partial electrical currents, the positive charges, is approximated by a third order Maclaurin series and the rest of the unknowns are expressed by the fourth-order polynomi- als, which cover the known distributions of the electric field in the electrification of liquid dielectrics under the influence of external electric fields. The different cases of electrification are explained. One of the most difficult cases, the one with the formation of a bipolar electrode structures is explained only qualitatively. The accepted model explaining the many cases of electrification, does not adequately explains the processes analyzed in this exceptional case. So further investigations are necessary and the theory of boundary layers may be promising.