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Electrical discharge between parts of clouds or a cloud and the ground is called What?
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When clouds crash together it causes thunder but why doesn't the clouds go throw each other because it is steam?
Thunder is not caused by clouds crashing together. It is caused by electrical discharge, meaning lightning.
When does thunder and lightning happen?
Clouds can build up very high electrical charges. This can create a very high EMF (Electromotive Force, AKA Voltage) between clouds or from cloud to earth. When this force gets large enough, an electrical discharge current will arc from cloud to cloud or cloud to earth. This discharge arc makes itself known by the light it releases (which we call lightning) and the sound it creates (which we call thunder) as it heats the air along the discharge path.
How you lightning is a form of static electricity?
Lightening is just a discharge taking place between charged clouds or in between a charged cloud and any charged region of the earth
Lightning is a form of what energy?
Lightning is a form of static electricity
What kind of energy produces lighting bolts?
a buildup of static electricity in clouds creates lightening bolts, so electrical energy.
What is an electrical discharge between parts of clouds or a cloud and the ground is called what?
That's called 'lightning'.
What is an electrical discharge between parts of clouds or between a cloud and the ground?
Lightning.
Electrical discharge between two clouds or between a cloud and the Earth's surface?
Your mom lol
What is the lightning?
natural electrical discharge in the sky/clouds
Does lightning come from the clouds?
The source of lightning in thunderhead clouds is when there is a significant amount of ice in the cloud, most likely hail and there are 2 differing charges in 2 areas. The negative charge is at the bottom of the cloud, while the positive charge is at the top of the cloud. The ground is positively charge until there is an electrical discharge between the negatively charged cloud base and the positively charged ground, then it becomes mostly negative which then can open up the opportunity for a lightning bolt to jump from the top of the cloud, all the way down to the ground in another electrical discharge that is of greater electrical potential (voltage) than the first electrical discharge between the cloud base and the ground. This is because it takes more voltage to have a visible electrical discharge over a longer distance. There has to be 30,000 volts/cm of distance for a visible electrical discharge to occur.
What is a sudden discharge between parts of a cloud between nearby clouds or between a cloud and the ground?
lightning
When clouds crash together it causes thunder but why doesn't the clouds go throw each other because it is steam?
Thunder is not caused by clouds crashing together. It is caused by electrical discharge, meaning lightning.
How does the lightning create during the thunderstorm?
It is created due to an electrical discharge of electricity among water droplets and ice in the clouds..!!
When does thunder and lightning happen?
Clouds can build up very high electrical charges. This can create a very high EMF (Electromotive Force, AKA Voltage) between clouds or from cloud to earth. When this force gets large enough, an electrical discharge current will arc from cloud to cloud or cloud to earth. This discharge arc makes itself known by the light it releases (which we call lightning) and the sound it creates (which we call thunder) as it heats the air along the discharge path.
What is the purpose of lightning?
Lightning is simply a static electrical discharge between opposite charges between clouds, or the clouds and the ground. It occurs in order to cancel out opposing charge surpluses. Thunder is simply the concussion shock wave caused by the explosive heating and expansion of the air immediately around the bolt of lightning.
What is kind of electric light?
Lightning is an electrical current that starts in clouds due to differences in electrical charges between parts of the clouds.
Electricity released which has built up in thunder clouds by evening?
The discharge of electricity built up during a storm can be dangerous. It is a static discharge that is generated by positive an negatively charged clouds. When these clouds come in close contact with each other there is an electrical static discharge. This is known as lightning.
