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Why does the lifeguard at the swimming pool ask you to get ut of the pool when lightning is occurring if pure water is not a good conductor of electricity?
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Pure water may not be a goodconductor of electricity but impure water can have lots of ionic conductors in it. Your swimming pool water is not pure water. Consider the chlorine that is being added. It dissolves into ions. Consider that lots of people have died in the bathtub when the hairdryer fell in. That's a lot less current than your local lightening bolt. Also, in the water, your head is the highest thing on the surface which helps to make you a target. Granted, in a pool, odds are that there are other things that are fairly close that will be higher as opposed to being in a lake.
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What is some natrally occurring electricity?
Lightening. The upwelling and downwelling of the wind causes charges to develop in the cloud. When the lowest point of the cloud has a lot of negative charge and the ground, trees, buildings, etc has a strong positive charge, the charges move toward each other (opposite charges attract) and therefore we see a lightening.
Did Benjamin Franklin invent elictricity?
Benjam Franklen did the expirment on electricity. You know, the guy with the kite and the metal key.
A list of naturly occurring electricity?
Just a few off the top of my head: 1. Lightning 2. Static electricity, which occurs when any two dissimilar materials are in contact. 3. Nerve impulses, which use ions like sodium or potassium as the charge carriers (instead of electrons).
Which energy source relies on naturally occurring sources of running water to create electricity?
Which energy source relies on naturally occurring sources of running water to create electricity?
How electricity was made and by who?
Electricity was not made, it is a naturally occurring phenomenon. Benjamin Franklin however, did discover electricity and that it could be harnessed for common use.
When lightning strikes within one cloud it is called what?
It's called in-cloud or cloud-to-cloud lightning.
How does a lightning rod work?
In addition to providing a conducting path to ground in case a lightning strike occurs, lightning rods also reduce the number of large lightning strikes by reducing the static charge build-up in the atmosphere around the building. The pointed end of the rod creates an attraction point for the excess charge and siphons it to ground, reducing the charge difference between the cloud and the building.If you get a chance to deal with a small Tesla coil or small static generator, set up a situation in which sparking is occurring between a broad object (like a sphere) and the coil/generator . Then introduce a grounded thin rod (or some other grounded pointy object). the sparking will stop and there may be some micro-lightning (and soft crackling sound) around the point.Basically, the pointy grounded rod creates smaller, lower energy lightning to prevent the huge damaging strikes.
What naturally occurring source of energy are we not yet able to harness and use?
Electricity is the naturally occurring source of energy that we are yet not able to harness and use.
Does copper conduct electricity better than gold?
Yes, it does! Pure copper is a much better electrical conductor at normal operating conditions. Gold plating is used in electronics and cables because of it's corrosion resistance. I'm not really sure why though. Silver is cheaper than gold, and oxides to silver oxide, which is still a better conductor than gold. pure silver is the best naturally occurring conductor, followed by copper followed (not very closely) by gold.
Did Ban Franklin invent electricity?
No, BEN Franklin did not. William Gilbert first described electricity in 1600. No one actually "invented" electricity. It is actually a naturally occurring phenomenon that we can recreate in many ways.
How can you have thunderstorms without lightning?
Thunderstorms typically include lightning as a result of electrical discharge between clouds or between a cloud and the ground. However, in some cases, thunderstorms can occur without visible lightning due to certain weather conditions, such as the absence of sufficient charge separation or the lightning occurring within the cloud itself, known as "intra-cloud" lightning.
How are geothermal and hydroelectric energy similar?
they both use turbines to produce electricity
