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thunder

What is thunder? How hot is lightning?

February 25, 2019November 7, 2015 by Chris Robbins

Imagine yourself as a cloud, happily floating over the surface of the Earth without a care in the world. As you drift across the sky, the millions of tiny water droplets and ice crystals that you are composed of brush against each other, causing a buildup of electric charges in your cloud body. The negative … Read more

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