electricity requires a medium to flow and it cannot flow through air. so how do

electricity requires a medium to flow and it cannot flow
through air. so how does lightning come to earth through air
without any medium?

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electricity requires a medium to flow and it cannot flow through air. so how does lightning come to..

Answer / ashish

ioniged air provid the path

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electricity requires a medium to flow and it cannot flow through air. so how does lightning come to..

Answer / electrobot of the philippines

The formation of lighting happens when the negatively
charged water droplets in the cloud or the supercooled
water droplets attract the positively charged particles
from the ground thus sending streamers down from the cloud
and up to the highest point on the ground. When they meet a
powerful current flows in between, this is called lightning.

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electricity requires a medium to flow and it cannot flow through air. so how does lightning come to..

Answer / ulaganathan

then what about wireless electricity ?, since it uses
an medium of several frequency but for lightining
is of an heavy electricity, the attraction between
the dust particles and the air medium, to obey
couloumbs law

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