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  Lightning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lightning is a powerful natural electrostatic discharge produced during a thunderstorm.
Ground-to-cloud lightning is a lightning discharge between the ground and a cumulonimbus cloud from an upward-moving leader stroke.
The lightning bolt shape was a symbol of male humans among the Native Americans such as the Apache (a rhombus shape being a symbol for females) in the American Old West.
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 Lightning - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Lightning's abrupt electric discharge is accompanied by the emission of light.
Lightning was initially observed travelling up at around 50,000 m/s in a similar way to a typical blue jet, but then divided in two and speeded at 250,000 m/s to the ionosphere, where they spread out in a bright burst of light.
The bolt of lightning in heraldry is distinguished from the thunderbolt and is shown as a zigzag with nonpointed ends.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Lightning   (5088 words)

  
 Lightning
Lightning's abrupt electric discharge is accompanied by the emission of visible light and other forms of electromagnetic radiation.
An average bolt of positive lightning carries a current of 300 kiloamperes, transfers a charge of up to 300 coulombs, has a potential difference up to 1 gigavolt (a thousand million volts), dissipates enough energy to light a 100 watt lightbulb for up to 95 years, and lasts for tens or hundreds of milliseconds.
The bolt of lightning in heraldry is distinguished from the lightning bolt and is shown as a zigzag with non-pointed ends.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/l/li/lightning.html   (5574 words)

  
 Lightning (dinghy) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lightning is a sailing dinghy originally designed by Sparkman and Stephens in 1938.
Awarded ISAF International Class status, the Lightning is sailed in more than 13 countries and in the Pan American Games, and the class provides a professionally-managed association that is among the largest in all of one-design sailing.
The Lightning's hard chine and 130 lb centerboard give her the stability and power of a small keel boat going to weather in strong winds and allow her to carry a very large spinnaker for breathtaking offwind rides.
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 Lightning Information - lightning strikes
Intracloud lightning is the most common type of lightning lightning audio which occurs completely inside one cumulonimbus cloud, and is commonly called an anvil crawler.
Cloud-to-ground lightning is a great lightning discharge between a cumulonimbus cloud and the ground initiated by the downward-moving lightning rods leader stroke.
An observer may see nearby lightning, but the sound from the discharge is grease lightning animated lightning refracted over his head by a change in the temperature, and therefore the density, of the air around him.
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Cloud-to-ground lightning is a lightning discharge between a cumulonimbus cloud and the ground initiated by the downward-moving leader stroke.
Lightning on Venus occurs so often that it is speculated that, were colonization to ever occur on Venus, lightning would be a primary power source.
One way to prepare for lightning safety is to install a device known as lightning conductor (commonly known as a lightning rod) for preventing injury by lightning to an individual or an instrument.
www.geodatabase.de /lightning   (1886 words)

  
 Black Lightening   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Lightning is a powerful natural electrostaticdischarge produced during a thunderstorm.
Lightning's abrupt electricdischarge is accompanied by the emission of light.
Benjamin Franklin was so impressed with the manypoints of resemblance between lightning and electricity, that he was convinced of their identity, and determined to ascertain bydirect experiment the truth of his bold conjecture.
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 Lightning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
While the experiment was underway, ball lightning appeared, collided with Richmann's head, and killed him, leaving a red spot.
Several different types of devices, including lightning rods, lightning arresters, and electrical charge dissipaters, are used to prevent lightning damage and safely redirect lightning strikes.
Lightning — Explains how the energy of lightning results from an interplay of updrafts and gravity, acting somewhat like the Van de Graaff generator.
www.dictionpedia.com /en/Lightning   (5550 words)

  
 lightning information site
At the present time aircraft are not designed to withstand such strikes, since their existence was unknown at the time standards were set, and the dangers unappreciated until the destruction of a glider in 1999 [4].
Intracloud lightning is the most common type of lightning which occurs completely inside one cumulonimbus cloud, type of intracloud lightning is commonly called an anvil crawler.
The United States is home to "Lightning Alley", a group of states in the American Southeast that collectively see a large number of lightning strikes per year.
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 Tower of Babel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is likely that it corresponds to the giant ziggurat to Marduk (Etemenanki), an ancient ziggurat which was abandoned, falling into ruin due to earthquakes, and lightning damaging the clay.
This huge ziggurat, and its downfall is thought by many academics to have inspired the story of the Tower of Babel.
Since that time earthquakes and lightning had dispersed its sun-dried clay; the bricks of the casing had split, and the earth of the interior had been scattered in heaps.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tower_of_Babel   (5056 words)

  
 www.outsideweather.com - World Weather Forecasts and News Online
Lightning storm pictures Multiple cloud-to-ground and cloud-to-cloud lightning strokes are observed during a night-time thunderstorm.
View lightning pictures - Lightning Storm Pictures, Pictures Of Ball Lightning, Lightning Bolt Pictures, and other Lightning Strikes.
The Thunder Lightning FI with our programmable to be corrected.
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