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YOUR correspondent, Mr. E. Kilburn Scott, suggests in NATURE of November 24, p. 760, that “the ball may be a mass of concentrated nitrogen oxides,” and considers that this would “fit in well with the formation and action of such gases,” and he compares the chemical activity of lightning with the well-known reactions occurring in high-tension arc flames.
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REYNOLDS, W. Globular Lightning. Nature 112, 903 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112903b0
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