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Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Where on earth can you find temperature 5 times hotter than the temperature of the sun?

When lightning strikes, the air around a lightning bold is superheated to a temperature of about 5 times the temperature of the sun. Tis sudden heating causes the air to expand faster than the speed of sound, which compresses the air and forms a shock wave. This is what we hear as thunder.

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