Ball lightning from atmospheric discharges via metal nanosphere oxidation: From soils, wood or metals

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 360, Issue 1790, 2002, Pages 61-88

  Abrahamson, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Ball lightning; Lightning strike; Metal nanoparticles; Oxidation

Indexed keywords

METAL; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; LIGHTNING; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOIL; WOOD;

ATMOSPHERE; LIGHTNING; METALS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SOIL; WOOD;

EID: 0037081168     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2001.0919     Document Type: Article

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