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Is lightning a plasma

Updated: 8/11/2023
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9y ago

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Well, the path in which the visible portion of lightning takes is plasma. But plasma is a gas. An ionized gas. So the flash of light you see is static electricity from the clouds jumping through that ionized gas (plasma) to the earth.

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Paul Labonte

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11mo ago
seeing lighting strick as it hit gound seeing the plasma shatter like glass beautiful blue true.

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