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    Question: What makes thunder and lightning?

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    Asked by 476ghtg26 to Dervil, Moises, Pramod, Saoirse, Stephen on 18 Nov 2016. This question was also asked by 446ghtg46.
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      Stephen Davitt answered on 18 Nov 2016:


      Thunder and lightning is made by molecules in the clouds creating HUGE amounts of static electricity, this static electricity eventually becomes too much and sparks down to the earth creating lightning, and the thunder is the loud crash that goes with it

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