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Why lightning shows an affinity to metals. After lightning strikes a place it is found to sort of seek metal objects.Some times it makes holes on mud walls to connect to a metal object inside.Why?
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The atoms in metals are not connected to a peticular atom so they are allowed to travel without being stopped throughout the material. This creates a conductivity to electricity. Lightning tends to head twoards object with the most conductivity thus being metal. This is also why being in a car is the safest place to be in during a lightning storm. the lightning will travel through the metal frame around the car and if im not mistaken leave through the ground (the tires) in the end not harming you.
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Why does lightning hit people?
When charged particles in the storm clouds, Positive in the bottoms and Negative at the top, also known as the 'anvil', gather in clumps, they can be sent downwards in the form of lightning to connect to the positive charges in the Earth's soil. Lightning is 'lazy' and seeks a path of least resistance, and sometimes that path could be through a human body. They advise you not to stand next to trees because since they are tall, the lightning might decide to travel through them because they offer less resistance and it might hit you as well. Me, being a person who has experienced being struck by lightning can say that making yourself the tallest or largest object in the way of lightning is a foolish thing to do, because you will provide a path of least resistance for it to follow.
When does lightning happen?
Lightning will show up in lightning storms. Lightning storms usually occur in summer or warm places. The bolts will travel the shortest path they can so make sure you aren't near or are the tallest object around!
Does a lightning bolt originate from the ground?
I am 100 percent sure that lightning comes from the clouds. The bottom part of the clouds are sometimes negatively charged and when they get near high objects (usually trees or tall buildings) they release all the negative charged atoms as plasma.
How often does lightning strike lakes?
That is an interesting question, usually when lightning strikes it usually hits the highest point possible in the vicinity of downward motion. When lightning "strikes", something called a stepped leader leaves the cloud, sort of "looking" for a path to follow. When this leader gets close to an object sticking up above the flat surrounding surface, something called a streamer leaps up from the object things like tree's, buildings, animals, golf clubs or fishing poles, whatever, if they're the tallest object around. Also at times there is an ionized path that lightning will take, meaning an area of high electrical conductivity (it'll make the hairs on your skin and head stand on end, it feels really tingly), that's a point where the steeped leader is trying to connect with a streamer, when they connect or if you add something to decrease the channel width (by holding something conductive up) ZAP! you get whacked with one Billion volts. As for it striking a lake, electricity will always follow a path of least resistance. While one would expect that lightning would probably hit lakes quite often due to their high conductivity based on solubles in the lakes, area, volume, ect. I'd imagine it's probably not that frequent because most lakes are surrounded by taller objects than the lake itself. This creates a shorter path that the electricity would have to bridge. I'd say more frequently that lightning wouldn't hit the actual lake, but rather say the mast of a yacht on that lake, or the fishing pole a fisherman is holding up while on that lake, since that would make that object the tallest point in a very large open space. Though respectively I haven't been able to find any "exact" numbers. Probably because lightning flashes hit various pieces of ground/water about 22 million times each year in the United States alone.
How is an isobar like a contour line?
Both isobars as contour lines connect points on a map along which values of a given parameter are equal. Contour lines connect points of equal elevation while isobars connect points of equal pressure.
What is a synonym for connect?
Associate, friend, kin, contact, union, conjunction, alliance, communication, nexus, affinity...
What is the function of the antenna on a lightning bug?
the function of the antenna on a lightning bug is.....to know when there is an enemy coming or it is like a remote can connect to remote control car...while the bugs antenna is to know when there is a enemy coming..
Will a lightning strike cause damage to a motorized awning?
That depends entirely upon whether or not the structure is grounded. If it's grounded usually through a lightning rod connect to a grounded post, then the energy of the strike will transfer to the ground harmlessly. If it's not a lightning strike would destroy the awning and possibly set it on fire.
How do you complete floor 47 on 100 Floors?
Change the patterns so they connect the DOT (around the middle) to the lightning bolt in the bottom right corner. The lines won't exactly match up, but if you imagine they do, and you make a continuous path from the lightning bolt to the center dot, the door will open. Tap each tile to turn it. All the corner tiles need to be turned so that both ends lead to another block and not into a wall, floor, or ceiling (the lightning tile can't be turned, but it already doesn't point to a wall). (No tiles should lead to a wall, floor, or ceiling.) In order of the path from the dot to the lightning: Third row, third column: The dot connects to the tile below it. It can't be moved. Fourth row, Third column: This tile should connect to the dot and to the tile to the left of it. Fourth row, second column: This tile should connect left and right. Fourth row, first column: The corner tile should connect right and up. Third row, first column: This tile should connect down and right. Third row, second column: This tile should connect left and up. Second row, second column: This tile should connect down and left Second row, first column: This tile should connect right and up First row, first column: The corner should connect down and right First row, second column: This line should connect left and right. First row, third column (top middle): This tile should connect left and down. Second row, third column: This tile should connect up and right Second row, fourth column: This tile should connect left and up First row, fourth column: This tile should connect down and right First row, fifth column: The corner should connect left and down. Second row, fifth column: This line should connect up and down Third row, fifth column: This tile should connect up and left. Third row, fourth column: This tile should connect right and down Fourth row, fourth column: This tile should connect up and right (to the lightning bolt) Fourth row, fifth column: The lightning bolt connects to the left, and cannot be changed. See the screenshots in the related link.
What direction does lightning strike?
Lightning strikes from the sky when a channel of charged ions reaches down from the sky to connect with a channel of the opposite charge that is reaching up. This causes a flash of light called a step leader when electricity travels between the charges.
What does the n mean on Harry Potter's forehead?
It is a scar in the shape of a lightning bolt. The scar was caused when Lord Voldemort tried to kill him, when the curse failed it left that scar. The scar and the failed curse connect Harry to the Dark Lord.
What will happen if 2 lightning bolts connect together?
It would create a super charged geo-spronatic ball of lighting and explode shooting out smaller bolts of lighting and killing anything in its path!
Why does lightning hit people?
When charged particles in the storm clouds, Positive in the bottoms and Negative at the top, also known as the 'anvil', gather in clumps, they can be sent downwards in the form of lightning to connect to the positive charges in the Earth's soil. Lightning is 'lazy' and seeks a path of least resistance, and sometimes that path could be through a human body. They advise you not to stand next to trees because since they are tall, the lightning might decide to travel through them because they offer less resistance and it might hit you as well. Me, being a person who has experienced being struck by lightning can say that making yourself the tallest or largest object in the way of lightning is a foolish thing to do, because you will provide a path of least resistance for it to follow.
When does lightning happen?
Lightning will show up in lightning storms. Lightning storms usually occur in summer or warm places. The bolts will travel the shortest path they can so make sure you aren't near or are the tallest object around!
Where does lightning land?
One kind of lightning is a connection between two charged clouds. But you asked where it "lands", so you must be thinking about the other kind. Lightning is a connection between a charged cloud and the Earth. If there are objects around that can provide an easy path to the Earth, like trees, houses, skyscraper buildings, or steel radio towers, then lightning will take advantage of them and use them for part of its path. But even if there's nothing around that's any higher than the ground, and the lightning is forced to make the entire trip through air, it'll do that, and eventually connect the charged cloud to the Earth. I've written this carefully, to avoid any reference to one direction or the other, because lightning can travel up, from the ground to the cloud, just as easily as it can travel down, from the cloud to the ground.
How does lightning occur between two clouds during storms?
During a thunderstorm ice crystals and water droplets collide and in the process exchange electrons. This can cause these particles to become electrically charged. Air currents within the thunderstorm then separates these charge particles, creating positively and negatively charged regions within the storm. Lightning occurs when this electricity discharges to balance out this difference.
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