For the first time, scientists have found that electric sparks can be guided using ultrasonic waves. A recent study by ...

THE thermal theory of ignition of gases explains certain phenomena in the ignition of explosive mixtures by electric sparks involving capacitive and break or make discharges. However, a number of ...

THE study of lightning has been allied to the study of the electrical spark discharge since the dawn of experimental science. Benjamin Franklin, the 'father of lightning', performed with ...

and hydrogen gas with an electrical spark and got amino acids. Miller and Urey proposed that life got its jump-start from lightning striking Earth's primordial ocean around 4 billion years ago.