Timeline for If lightning is caused by ionisation of air, why does it only last briefly?
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| Feb 16, 2022 at 1:42 | comment | added | honeste_vivere | @TLW - Fair point and thanks for the dissertation. This is neat stuff... | |
| Feb 16, 2022 at 0:33 | comment | added | TLW | Ok, but saying 'component X recovers in microseconds' doesn't affect my statement that there are components that recover in the millisecond range. (See e.g. ttu-ir.tdl.org/bitstream/handle/2346/13998/… ) | |
| Feb 15, 2022 at 14:42 | comment | added | honeste_vivere | @TLW - The current pulse recovery time scale is on the order of 15 $\mu$s according to [Thomas et al. [2008]](doi.org/10.1029/2008JA013567). The recombination time scale is just derived from things like the thermal speed and plasma frequency. | |
| Feb 15, 2022 at 5:15 | comment | added | TLW | It's instructive to look at spark gap equations. The time to 90% breakdown voltage recovery is typically on the order of a millisecond. Pretty quick, but still nowhere near the microsecond range. (I think the discrepancy is because of reaction times for atoms to reform molecules, but I am not a chemist.) | |
| Feb 14, 2022 at 14:29 | history | answered | honeste_vivere | CC BY-SA 4.0 |