Laboratory ball lightning

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Feb 1968

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1968jatp...30..313b&link_type=abstract

Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 313-317

Physics

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A mechanism for the formation of ball lightning is discussed. It is suggested that the presence of a low density of simple hydrocarbons in the atmosphere, coupled with an atmospheric electrical discharge, may be sufficient to form the phenomenon. A simple calculation establishes a theoretical diameter of approximately 6-130 cm. A laboratory experiment is described in which a ball of fire was formed. The phenomenon appeared to possess many properties of natural ball lightning, including existence for a finite time without an external energy source.

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