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To review, lightning is created by the attraction between opposite charges, the same force that creates static electricity. But lightning uses huge opposite charges to produce an electrical current that's nothing like what you'd get from static electricity.
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weathereye.kgan.com/cadet/lightning/bigspark.html
weathereye.kgan.com/cadet/lightning/bigspark.html
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Weather Wiz Kids is a fun and safe website for kids about all the weather info they need to know. It contains tools for weather education, including weather games, activities, experiments, photos, a glossary and educational teaching materials for the classroom. ... Welcome to Weather Wiz Kids®. ... WEATHER WIZ KIDS® STORE...
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The channel created by the stepped leader is full of relatively static charge, like a line of cars at a red light. When the two parts join, it is like that light turning green, and just as the cars near the light start moving first, so do the charges near the join.
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www.mos.org/sln/toe/lightning.html
www.mos.org/sln/toe/lightning.html
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Lightning is an atmospheric discharge of electricity, which typically occurs during thunderstorms, and sometimes during volcanic eruptions or dust storms. In the atmospheric electrical discharge, a leader of a bolt of lightning can travel a...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080715214...
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How lightning is actually created inside a cloud is still the subject of active research. Professor Rutledge said that for a storm to become a thunderstorm (to produce lightning and therefore thunder), it needs to produce lots of ice in the...
http://unwindingmindstreamsinenglish.blogspot.com/2009/...
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Ball lightning could soon lose its status as a mystery, now that a team in Brazil has cooked up a simple recipe for making similar eerie orbs of light in the lab, even getting them to bounce around... ... Lightning Strikes Toronto CN Tower Multiple Times...
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVDU-6opEqA
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Ball Lightning Created in Lab, Scientists create ball lightning using technology taken from a common microwave oven. ... "Our experiment confirms to some extent the theory that ball lightning originates from hot spots in the ground created by normal lightning," Jerby told LiveScience.
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www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,185842,00.html
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Eerie ball lightning could soon lose its mystery status, thanks to electrifying Brazilian research ... One theory suggests that ball lightning is a highly ionised blob of plasma held together by its own magnetic fields, while an exotic explanation claims the cause is mini black holes created in the big bang.
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www.newscientist.com/article/mg19325863.500-lightning-b...
www.newscientist.com/article/mg19325863.500-lightning-balls-created-in-the-lab.html
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Ball lightning - the mysterious slow-moving spheres of light occasionally seen during thunderstorms - has been created in the lab. ... Earlier in 2006, Israeli scientists created plasma balls by using microwaves to vaporise various materials, but Gerd Fussmann and his colleagues used a different approach that they...
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www.newscientist.com/article/dn9293-physicists-create-g...
www.newscientist.com/article/dn9293-physicists-create-great-balls-of-fire.html
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