Timeline for Electric charges
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| May 22, 2017 at 18:00 | comment | added | Czar Luc | So the density of the environment also affects the visibility of the "tiny lightning"? | |
| May 22, 2017 at 17:58 | vote | accept | Czar Luc | ||
| May 22, 2017 at 17:53 | comment | added | Floris | The current density in the air is high enough to cause the formation of a plasma - the current ionizes the gas in the air. As the electrons are knocked off the molecules and later recombine again, they emit light. So it's really "lightning on a very small scale". | |
| May 22, 2017 at 17:50 | comment | added | Czar Luc | Another question is, why do we see the light or this "tiny lightning" such as what is commonly termed static electricity? Which concerns light. | |
| May 22, 2017 at 17:46 | history | answered | Floris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |