Lightning is caused by electric charges releasing energy. When the denser (positive charges) go to the top of the cloud, the less dense (negative charges) go to the bottom. This creates an electric imbalance of charges. In the ground, the negative charges are pushed away because the positive charges are attracted to the negative charges at the bottom of the cloud. If an object is in the way the lightning does what it has to to get to the ground, so it will get there faster. When the lightning is discharged you only glimpse it for a second until it disappears. It can travel 75 m/sec, so even though it creates light it is a release of energy so it doesn't travel at the speed of light.
By Brian Hang
lightning is not necessarily formed but is just a large build up of static electricity between a point on the ground and the storm cloud. Its when these plus and minus charges come together to form a lightning strike.
Lightning is basically static electricity between the cloud and the ground. The cloud has too much of one charge (normally negative), while the ground has too much of the opposite charge (normally positive). The lightning bolt is the name of the electrical discharge between the two objects. It can also be between cloud-tree, cloud-car, or even (ouch!) cloud-human.
Electricity in the air.
Lightning forms from the build up of electrons or negative charges in clouds that are attracted to positive charges in other clouds or on the ground. Lightning is the discharge of energy from the cloud to the ground and back.
Once there is enough charge built up between the cloud and the ground a stepped leader (with a negative charge) will start toward the ground. The stepped leader is a dim 50-yard long "streak" of lightning starting from the cloud. The stepped leader will continue toward the ground in steps of 50 yards. Each stepped leader takes about 50 millionths of a second to start branching off into one or more additional stepped leaders. As the stepped leader(s) nears the ground, the positively charges on earth, and objects on earth, start to be attracted to the stepped leader. (For a human, if you have your hair standing on end, you are being attracted to the stepped leader of a lightning strike.) Once the stepped leader reaches one of the positively-charged streams from the ground, the positive charges flow in what we all now know as lightning, a bright stream in the sky that has several branches. The positive charges going up to the cloud are actually where we see the bright lightning -- this is also known as the "return stroke." When the return stroke reaches the cloud, there may be still more negative charges left, and the lightning will continue to arc, with negative charges being taken to the ground and return strokes taking positive charges to the cloud. A single lightning bolt may consist of a number of separate strokes, all occurring within less than a second.
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Lightning bolt forms when there is an imbalance between positive and negative charges. When these electronic charges meet in the clouds, they form lightning bolt.
they form when 3 or four different wind types combust together and they mix amd mix until they cant mix no more they blow open and lightning comes out by the force of the mixture
There a positive charge on the ground and at the top of a cloud. There's a negitive charge at the bottom. That forms lightning.
Cloud negative and positive entergy
thors hammer
Plasma
Unknown, because it is 'plasma'-like, not normal pure element of one kind.
there are around 21 different types of lightning
A chemical bolt is when a hole is drilled into a surface, and then filled with some form of resin/concrete, and a bolt is then inserted. When the resin cures this results in an incredibly strong (when installed correctly) mounting/fixing point.
yes
Lightning can be used as a noun (bolt of lightning) or an adjective (lightning fast). It is not a verb, so it does not have a past tense form.
"Lightning Bolt" is the nickname for Usain Bolt
When a lightning bolt discharges, it creates a 'shockwave' in the surrounding air, which spreads outwards from the source - that's the thunder you hear.
Yes, a lightning bolt can provide electricity because a lightning bolt is electricity.
This form of lightning bolt can produce as much as 10 times the amount of a normal lightning bolt which 1 billion volts of electricity. That means that this type of lightning bolt can produce upto 10 billion volts of electricity.
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Zeus' lightning bolt is his main power source.
Lightning Bolt - band - was created in 1994.
Fulmen is the Latin word for lightning bolt.
You're most likely thinking of AC/DC (the dash is usually in the form of a lightning bolt)
The bolt was stolen by Luke, who was being manipulated by Kronos.Luke Castellan stole Zeus's lightning bolt in the Lightning Thief.
Percy retrieved the lightning bolt that had been stolen from Zeus.