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Lightning-Flashes

Nature volume 35, page 342 (1887)Cite this article

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THE quotation from M. Hirn in your issue of January 27 (P. 303) suggests a few remarks. What may be the greatest length of a flash of lightning? In the year 1843 I attempted to answer this question by the following observations.

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D'ABBADIE, A. Lightning-Flashes. Nature 35, 342 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/035342b0

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