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    • Scientist's outside experiment with Tesla coil causing lightning
    Rights: Peter Terren Published 2 September 2010 Size: 1.9 MB Referencing Hub media

    Using junk and materials from hardware shops, Peter Terren carries out amazing experiments with a Tesla1 coil – a machine (transformer) that turns electricity2 into streams or sparks that fire directly into the air or strike nearby objects like lightning3.

    1. tesla: The tesla (symbol T) is a unit that defines the intensity (density) of a magnetic field. The tesla was defined in 1960 in honour of inventor, scientist and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla.
    2. electricity: A general term that includes a variety of phenomena resulting from the presence and flow of electrical charge.
    3. lightning: A large-scale natural spark discharge, visible as a flash of blue-white light, that occurs within the atmosphere or between the atmosphere and the Earth’s surface. The lightning channel consists of extremely high-temperature plasma.

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      2. The tesla (symbol T) is a unit that defines the intensity (density) of a magnetic field. The tesla was defined in 1960 in honour of inventor, scientist and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla.

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      3. A general term that includes a variety of phenomena resulting from the presence and flow of electrical charge.

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      4. A large-scale natural spark discharge, visible as a flash of blue-white light, that occurs within the atmosphere or between the atmosphere and the Earth’s surface. The lightning channel consists of extremely high-temperature plasma.

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