electric discharge
Britishnoun
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The researchers believe the rapidity of those pulses produced the atmospheric changes in the nick of time to create a column of hot air that favors electric discharge.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2023
Last week, the FAA proposed another airworthiness directive to address potential electric discharge in the fuel tanks of Boeing 777 series planes if a lightning strike or an electrical short-circuit occurs.
From Reuters ● Aug. 2, 2022
An electric discharge through such a tube gives a very intense light that lasts only of a second.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
Brown, M. V. The electric discharge of the electric eel.
From Nature ● Dec. 12, 2017
One will understand this more easily when it is realized that at every electric discharge she runs away to escape the pain.
From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille
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