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Lightning is an electrical spark discharge that usually manifests as a bright flash of light and is accompanied by thunder. The electrical nature of lightning was first studied by the American physicist B. Franklin, who carried out experiments that attempted to extract electricity from thunderstorms.
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Apollonov, V. (2018). Lightning and Ecology of Atmosphere. In: High-Conductivity Channels in Space. Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, vol 103. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02952-4_3
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