Question

What is lightning conductor? How is it useful to us?​

Answer 1

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lightning conductor is a device which protects building when lightning strikes.

aa lightning conductor is a device that is designed to minimise avoid the loss of life and property during lightning.

a lightning conductor is simply a long flat thick strip of metal it goes all the way from a point well above the highest point of the structure to be protected to a point well inside the earth it is arranged along the outer periphery of the structure and its lower end is joined to a metal plate that lies by deep inside the earth at its upper end it has a spike like structure .

a lightning conductor helps to protect the structure in

two ways:-

1. the spike like structure at its upper end helps to reduce the chance of a build up of very large amounts of charges on the clouds in its neighbourhood this reduces the chance of a lightning strike occurring there.
2. different thick metal structure of the lightning conductor provides safe easy passage to the following electric charges as and when lightning does strike the lightning charges therefore slow down through it deep down into the earth and not through the structure structure is there for save from the damaging effect of lightning.

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