Static means still or stationary, while electricity is a flow of electrons or current, so the two together refers to stationary electron flow, which is better understood as an electric charge. In an electric charge, electrons are exchanges from one…
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Onyx is a variety of chalcedony and comes in a variety of colors, ranging from white and black to shades of blue and purple. However, the most common form of onyx contains the colors brown and black. Nowadays, you can…
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Hailstorms can be a really frightening and dangerous weather event. This is when frozen balls of ice fall from the sky from as high as 30,000 feet and they can reach speeds of 120 mph. This hail then crashes into the…
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Have you ever been watching a snowstorm when you’ve heard a loud rumble in the sky? Have you ever been out sledding when the snow is coming down hard and thought you heard the sounds of distant thunder? Have you…
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We’re so used to our own home environment to the air’s taste and density and texture that we rarely consider what unwanted irritants have taken up residence there along with us, hiding in the air we’re constantly breathing. Carbon monoxide…
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People who visit Los Angeles or Denver during the time when both cities experience the atmosphere’s inversion layer understand the definition of smog. The concentration of the smog is so thick that one cannot detect the urban landscape while perched…
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Thunderstorms occur whenever rain falls. But what about thundersnow? Perhaps a few people have heard the word “thundersnow” from TV meteorologists, yet they still do not know what it means. Rare as one might suggest, thundersnow occurs in a heavy…
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The carbon cycle is a process in which carbon is continually circulating through the biosphere. Carbon is one of the fundamental building blocks of life on Earth. Carbon is contained in the molecules of dead and living organisms. It exists…
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For a very long time, mankind has tried to manipulate certain weather components. For just about as long, he has come to recognize that there are often repercussions from such manipulations. Perhaps no time more than in the last few…
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On 5th May 2005, a group of storm chasers were chasing a possible touchdown for a tornado outside Seminole, Texas. As they approached the site, hailstones started falling from the sky. Exhilarated by the golf ball sized hailstones falling outside,…
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