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Biological Phenomena > Ecological and Environmental Phenomena > Climatic Processes > Lightning
... > Environment and Public Health > Environment > Meteorological Concepts > Atmosphere > Weather > Lightning
... > Biological Phenomena > Ecological and Environmental Phenomena > Environment > Meteorological Concepts > Atmosphere > Weather > Lightning

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Lightning  

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  • adverse effects of lightning is probably LIGHTNING INJURIES

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  • An abrupt high-current electric discharge that occurs in the ATMOSPHERE and that has a path length ranging from hundreds of feet to tens of miles. (From McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th ed)

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