What happens when you mix fire and lightning?

Plasma, Purton (Fire + Lightning): the Element of the Sun, as it is refered to. It is a potent mix of Fire and Lightning chakra that allows one to create a substance that has the brightness and burning power of the Sun.
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Does lightning affect fire?

Lightning plays an outsized role in wildfires: More than 40% of wildfires in the West, largely in places other than California, were caused by lightning, and those fires accounted for more than 70% of the acreage burned between 1992 and 2015, according to the U.S. Forest Service.
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Can lightning touch fire?

Fire danger: The biggest danger lightning poses to a house is fire. Wood and other flammable building materials can easily be ignited anywhere an exposed lightning channel comes in contact with (or passes through) them.
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Can lightning hit a car?

A typical cloud-to-ground, actually cloud-to-vehicle, lightning strike will either strike the antenna of the vehicle or along the roofline. The lightning will then pass through the vehicle's outer metal shell, then through the tires to the ground.
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How does lightning ignite a fire?

Lightning may serve as an ignition source of a fire by directly striking an object; by an arc discharge between two conductive objects at different induced potentials; by a current surge in circuitry and equipment resulting from an induced voltage; by the flow of substantial electrical current, which causes overheating ...
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Can lightning set a tree on fire?

If the outer layer of bark is soaked from heavy rainfall, the lightning may travel along the outside of the tree to the ground. This results in little damage. At other times, though, intense lightning bolts may split trees in two and cause them to burst into flame from the inside out.
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Is lightning a type of fire?

Lightning is direct but short, fire takes its time. Lightning can set things on fire, and fire used right can generate electricity. Both are part of an elemental trinity. People of ancient times used to think that lightning was celestial fire.
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Is Dark lightning real?

Dark lightning is the most energetic radiation produced naturally on Earth, but was unknown before 1991. While scientists now know that dark lightning naturally occurs in thunderstorms, they do not know how frequently these flashes take place or whether visible lightning always accompanies them.
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Does fire beat lightning?

But in rare cases, lightning beats ice (it's just water) and is beaten by fire because heat increases resistance to electricity (at least in metals; in air, heat decreases resistance, so fire will make lightning stronger...?).
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What are the 4 types of lightning?

Types of Lightning
  • Cloud-to-Ground (CG) Lightning.
  • Negative Cloud-to-Ground Lightning (-CG) ...
  • Positive Cloud-to-Ground Lightning (+CG) ...
  • Cloud-to-Air (CA) Lightning. ...
  • Ground-to-Cloud (GC) Lightning. ...
  • Intracloud (IC) Lightning.
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What happens when lightning strikes ice?

Ice is Critical to the Lightning Process

The collision of ice and water particles causes separation of the positive and negative electric charges in the particles. Positive charged ice particles tend to collect in the upper parts of the storm, with negative charged particles in the middle and lower parts of the storm.
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What happens when lightning strikes sand?

When lightning hits a sandy beach, it creates otherworldly glass sculptures known as fulgurites or “petrified lightning.” Find out how to spot them on your next beach vacation.
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Can lightning start a fire in the rain?

Lightning is often accompanied by strong winds from thunderstorms. These winds can quickly turn smoldering organic material into a raging fire.
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Is lightning a dry?

What is dry lightning? Dry lightning is lightning that occurs without rain nearby. The NOAA Storm Prediction Center routinely issues forecasts for dry lightning because this kind is more likely to cause forest fires.
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Can lightning happen during a snowstorm?

During a winter storm, snowflakes and sleet pellets high in the clouds can collide. Those collisions create the same static charges as in a summer thunderstorm. With enough static charge, lightning is created. Thundersnow is typically associated with very heavy rates of snow, which can lead to reduced visibility.
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What three elements cause a fire?

Oxygen, heat, and fuel are frequently referred to as the "fire triangle." Add in the fourth element, the chemical reaction, and you actually have a fire "tetrahedron." The important thing to remember is: take any of these four things away, and you will not have a fire or the fire will be extinguished.
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Can lightning create glass?

Lightning also has the power to make glass. When lightning strikes the ground, it fuses sand in the soil into tubes of glass called fulgurites. When a bolt of lightning strikes a sandy surface, the electricity can melt the sand. This melted substance combines with other materials.
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Is lightning hotter than the sun?

In fact, lightning can heat the air it passes through to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit (5 times hotter than the surface of the sun). When lightning strikes a tree, the heat vaporizes any water in its path possibly causing the tree to explode or a strip of bark to be blown off.
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Do ships get hit by lightning?

Absolutely. Tall ships did get struck by lightning quite often, but just because a ship is struck by lightning doesn't mean it will be completely destroyed. In 1852, British inventor Sir William Snow Harris published the first systematic study of lightning strikes on wooden ships.
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Can lightning power a city?

Lightning is both incredibly powerful and crazy fast. While it's true that a single lightning bolt could power the entire city of Santa Fe for about a minute, there are some issues with capturing lightning as an energy source.
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Can a person live after being struck by lightning?

In most cases, a person's heart will stop after being struck by lightning, so the key to survival is having someone nearby who can administer CPR. Even if you survive, a lightning strike will have long-lasting effects on your body, including memory issues, muscle soreness and changes in mood.
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What is the speed of lightning?

1. The speed of lightning. While the flashes we see as a result of a lightning strike travel at the speed of light (670,000,000 mph) an actual lightning strike travels at a comparatively gentle 270,000 mph.
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What color lightning is the strongest?

White: most powerful lightning color

White is the most dangerous color of lighting. It suggests both a low concentration of moisture and a high concentration of dust in air. We all are aware that being hit by lightning can have serious consequences.
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What is Spider lightning?

Spider lightning refers to long, horizontally traveling flashes often seen on the underside of stratiform clouds. Spider lightning is often linked to +CG flashes.
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