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WE have seen that, taking for granted the electrification of clouds, all the ordinary phenomena of a thunderstorm (except globe lightning) admit of easy and direct explanation by the known laws of statical electricity. Thus far we are on comparatively sure ground.
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On Various Suggestions as to the Source of Atmospheric Electricity 1 . Nature 29, 517 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/029517a0
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