HOW LIGHTNING KILLS.
The cause of death by lightning is tho sudden absorption of the electric current. When a thundsar-ckrai is highly charged with positive electricity hangs over a certain place tho earth beneath it becomes abnormally charged with the negative electric current, and a man, animal or other.. object standing or lying directly beneath it comes also under this influence. If while the man, animal or other object Is in this condition a discharge takes place from the cloud above the restoration of the equilibrium will be sudden and violent, or in other words, the negative current from the earth will rush up to join the positive cloud current, and in passing through tho object which separates the two currents, if it be an animate thing, will do so with such force as to produce almost invariably instant death. According to this a person in really “ struck ” by the ground current, and not by the forked fury from ab»v« all.
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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 15, Issue 31, 19 April 1904, Page 7
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161HOW LIGHTNING KILLS. Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 15, Issue 31, 19 April 1904, Page 7
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