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Example sentences for "atmospheric electricity"

  • It is probable that here as in the mountains of Skye, as described by Mr. Harker, these effects are the result of the general influence of atmospheric electricity independently of the direct agency of lightning.

  • The experiments which Thomson made on atmospheric electricity at the old College tower, and by means of portable electrometers in Arran and elsewhere, can only be mentioned.

  • A discharge of atmospheric electricity, accompanied by a vivid flash of light, commonly from one cloud to another, sometimes from a cloud to the earth.

  • The sound which follows a flash of lightning; the report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity.

  • Defn: A sharp burst of thunder; a sudden report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity.

  • Atmospheric electricity undergoes, like warmth, and like atmospheric pressure, a double fluctuation, yearly and daily, as well as accidental fluctuations more considerable than the regular ones.

  • And ever since meteorological observatories have made it a practice to register every day the degree and nature of atmospheric electricity by the use of very ingenious instruments.

  • What a mysterious world is that of atmospheric electricity!

  • Instead of denying it, men of science ought to study it, because it is certainly one of the most remarkable of the curiosities of atmospheric electricity.

  • Again, the phenomena of atmospheric electricity, including radioactivity, are probably of real climatic significance, but we are still in the stage of speculation with regard to this subject.

  • No other question relating to atmospheric electricity has, in recent years, been so much debated as this.

  • Atmospheric electricity, any condition of electrical disturbance in the atmosphere or clouds, due to some or all of the above mentioned causes.

  • Besides his work on atmospheric electricity, he devoted a great deal of thought to meteorology, especially to the vortical motion of waterspouts.

  • The cause of atmospheric electricity is not thoroughly understood.

  • The whole subject of discharge from and through gases is of great interest, and, if only in reference to atmospheric electricity, deserves extensive and close experimental investigation.


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