LIGHTNING by Dusean Norman

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LIGHTNING

Published on Nov 23, 2015

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A lightning bolt speed travels up to six thousand miles per second.
One type of lightning is called an elve. This lightning speed travels faster than a blink of a eye.
A flash of lightning is brighter than ten million one hundred watt lightbulbs.
Lightning can be made in a laboratory by a van de graaff static electricity generator.
When a lightning bolt strikes, the electrical energy quickly changes into heat.

Lightning destroy millions of acres of trees and brush each year, they also serve a useful function. By burning thick under brush, they create space in the wilderness.
Lightning also changes some of the oxygen in the air into ozone which helps clean the air.
When lightning storks it heats the air and makes two gas, nitrogen and oxygen.
The electricity in a lightning bolt would power one lightbulb for only a mouth.

Lightning first start when light and heat from the sun strike the Earth.
Lightning begins with violently moving ice crystals and raindrops in storm clouds.
Starting in the cloud, small steamers of sparks called stepped leaders begin to shoot downward in fifty yard leaps.

Do you know that a lightning is six thousand times faster than our spaceship.
Do you know that temperatures in the path of a lightning bolt can reach as high fifty thousand degrees fahrenheit. Five times faster than the surface of the sun.
Did you know that every second of every day more than a hundred lightning bolts strike the earth. That about ten million lightning bolts in a single day.
And did you know that lightning kills about one hundred people a year in the United States.

Simon, Seymour. Lightning. 2nd ed. New York Citiy: Harpercollins pubulishers, 2006. 5-31. Web. 11 Nov. 2014.
Harper, Suzanne. Sheets, Streaks, Beads, and Balls. First ed. Vol. 1. Danbury: Franklin Watts, 1997. 1 vols. Print.

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