If electricity only conducts through imsulators,how lightning occurs in air as air is a bad conductor?
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In the early stages of development, air acts as an insulator between the positive and negative charges in the cloud and between the cloud and the ground. When the opposite charges build up enough, this insulating capacity of the air breaks down and there is a rapid discharge of electricity that we know as lightning.
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Despite air being a poor conductor of lightning. The electric charge of lightning is so large that it rips the atoms in air apart so that the fragments have a charge and are called ions. The ions having a charge will be able to conduct a lightning bolt.
Answer:
Lightning occurs during heavy rainstorms.
Water has salts in it which conduct electricity. So lightning uses the uncharged particles or atoms and excite them to try to make lightning discharge to the ground.
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