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Q: Lighting is the discharge of what?
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What creates thunder and lighting?

Static discharge


What is an example of a powerful static discharge?

lighting


What does HID stand for in lighting?

High-intensity discharge


What is an atmospheric discharge of static electricity called?

Lightening.


What is a streak of light in the atmosphere?

I believe you are referring to lighting, the visible discharge to do potential difference.


Whose dangerous kite experiment proved that lighting was a discharge of electricity?

Benjamin Franklin


How does lighting discharge?

When there is a sufficiently strong electrostatic charge, it can cause air molecules to ionize, which are then electrically conductive and create a pathway for the discharge of the electrostatic charge.


What is a lighting bolt?

A lighting bolt is a strike of light through the sky and if your looking this up WOW!:PIt is a lightening discharge between/within clouds and the ground


What do thunder and lighting have in common?

Thunder and lighting are both products of a thunderstorm. Lighting is a static discharge that usually occurs during a thunderstorm (though it can also occur in some volcanic eruptions) and thunder is the shockwave produced by lightning.


The light given off by electic discharge through sodium vapor is?

Orange, it is often used in street lighting.


What was the first uses of electrictity?

To discharge the atmosphere in the form of a lightning bolt. Street lighting, took over from gas lights.


What element is used in the lighting of street lamps?

Sodium-vapour lamp, electric discharge lamp using ionized sodium,