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  2. Lightning injury - Wikipedia

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    Lightning injuries are divided into direct strikes, side splash, contact injury, and ground current. [1] Ground current occurs when the lightning strikes nearby and travels to the person through the ground. [1] Side splash makes up about a third of cases and occurs when lightning strikes nearby and jumps through the air to the person. [1]

  3. Body swap appearances in media - Wikipedia

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    Lightning strikes when one of them attempts to kill the other who was in a comatose state. [125] Great Men Academy: 2019 Teenage girl makes a wish on a unicorn, swapping her body with a fictionalized male version of herself. Magic The Day of Becoming You (Chinese) 2021

  4. List of lightning phenomena - Wikipedia

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    The lightning may be too far away to discern individual flashes. Smooth channel lightning is an informal term referring to a type of cloud-to-ground lightning strike that has no visible branching and appears like a line with smooth curves as opposed to the jagged appearance of most lightning channels. They are a form of positive lightning ...

  5. Lightning strike - Wikipedia

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    A lightning strike or lightning bolt is a lightning event in which an electric discharge takes place between the atmosphere and the ground. Most originate in a cumulonimbus cloud and terminate on the ground, called cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning.

  6. Back to the Future: The Game - Wikipedia

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    A lightning storm erupts; this acts as a substitute for Emmett seeing the creature electrified in the film as in the original timeline, and Emmett to realize that rockets cannot make the car fly, but rather static electricity. Marty helps Emmett convert his rocket car to a new propulsion system in time for the Science Expo in Episode 5.

  7. Lightning - Wikipedia

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    Positive lightning is less common than negative lightning and on average makes up less than 5% of all lightning strikes. [10] A bolt from the blue lightning strike which appears to initiate from the clear, but [clarification needed] the turbulent sky above the anvil cloud and drive a bolt of plasma through the cloud directly to the ground. They ...

  8. Brescia explosion - Wikipedia

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    The Brescia explosion occurred in 1769 in Brescia (now part of Italy) when a large store of gunpowder exploded after a lightning strike, causing extensive destruction and many deaths. Claims that as many as 6,000 people died in the explosion (which may be an exaggeration), places the event high on lists of accidents and disasters by death toll .

  9. Thunder - Wikipedia

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    Thunder is the sound caused by lightning. [1] [2] [3] Depending upon the distance from and nature of the lightning, it can range from a long, low rumble to a sudden, loud crack. The sudden increase in temperature and hence pressure caused by the lightning produces rapid expansion of the air in the path of a lightning bolt. [4]