atmospheric electricity
Americannoun
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The latest visualization of atmospheric electricity comes from Meteosat Third Generation, a European satellite launched in December.
From New York Times
Thus, the researchers concluded that swarms of honeybees "directly contribute to atmospheric electricity," which has downstream effects on the weather.
From Salon
Galvani's investigations revealed that nerve fibers transmitted “animal electricity,” which is no different in kind from the “atmospheric electricity” that Benjamin Franklin discovered with his kite experiments in Philadelphia in 1752.
From Scientific American
The fork-shaped discharge of atmospheric electricity is not lightning but has a similar look.
From Fox News
Unlike other missions that study atmospheric electricity, it was designed to study ordinary lightning and TGFs in extraordinary detail at the same time.
From Nature
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