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Lightning

Lightning
A flash of lightning rips through the night sky near Tucson, Arizona. Lightning is the visible electric discharge that happens between rain clouds or a rain cloud and the earth.
Keith Kent/Science Source/Photo Researchers, Inc.
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Electricity; Lightning; Thunderstorm
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