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How do Thunderstorms Work?
At any one time, all around the world, there are 2,000 thunderstorms happening, producing over a 100 lightning strikes a second. That's over 8 million lightning bolts every day unleashing the power ...
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Lightning Q&A
What is lightning? Does lightning strike from the sky down, or the ground up? Can you have lightning without thunder? This site has all the answers.
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Lightning: the shocking story.
Provides information, including pictures, of different forms of lightning and accounts of being struck by lightning.
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What is lightning? How does lightning happen?
A (student's?) attempt at describing the processes occurring in a lightning flash. A simple explanation is given but the assertion is made that physicists are still unclear of the mechanisms involved.
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Powers of ten
An amazing optics demonstration, showing views from an astronomic scale down to a sub-atomic view, where the scale factor alters by a power of ten each time.
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The Story of a Strike
One bolt of lightning has enough energy to flash on every light bulb in your town. Here's what lightning did to Gretel...
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Sparks and lightning
An essay describing a slowed down bolt of lightning
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Lightning, an example of a natural capacitor
A fast moving animation showing charge separation and lightning between storm clouds and the ground
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Plasma Balls
Well, essentially, they are glass globes with 'lightning bolts' coming from a central electrode to the surface of the sphere. If you touch the globe, the lightning will normally follow your hand.
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How Lightning Works
Everything you wanted to know about of how lightning works and its properties. Also contains a section on the water cycle. This site is part of HowStuffWorks.com.
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