What ions make up lightning?
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they're not ions actually. they're positive and negative charges
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No concrete way to work it out. Groups one and two take positive charges equal to their group number (Mg2+, Li1+ etc). Groups 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 ionise to a negative charge of 8 minus their group number (Cl1-, O2- etc), though 3, 4, and 5 tend to resist ionisation and are much more commonly found bonded covalently. The Transition elements ion charges are virtually impossible to predict without an extensive knowledge of d orbitals etc..
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Any and Every Copper atom has exactly protons in the nucleus...if it didnt, it wouldnt be Copper.\nThe only thing that will effect the over all change of the ion in that case is the number of electrons around the atom.\nA neutral atom will have equal numbers of proton and neutrons, however, if that atom should loose an electron, it will develop of positive charge.\nIn the case of a Copper +2 ion, the atom has lost 2 electrons to become the Cu+2 ion.\n\nCu+2,\nProtons (+) = 29\nElectrons (-) = 27
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Lightening (which causes the thunder) is caused by a static electrical charge build up inside very high clouds. The static build up is caused by the collision and rubbing of small ice particles way up in the clouds. If these particles get big enough they will fall down and depending on the temperature outside will either melt into rain, or could initiate crystal formation (snow).\n\nSo you see, there is nothing about whether its rain or snow that effects the mechanism of lightning generation. The reason that it is less common in the winter is that in order to produce the very high lightning generating clouds (anvil-topped cummilonimbus [sorry if spelt wrong!]) it requires very strong updrafts - This is more likely in the summer when the hot sun beating down heats air rapidly so it shoots up fast. But there are conditions in winter that can have the same effect (like collision between warm and cold fronts).
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Mg2+ and not Mg2-\nThis ion lacks 2 electrons to be neutral, so it is positively charged.
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All ionic compounds dissociate into respective +ve and -ve ions in aquous solutions.\n\nYou possibly want to know such compounds which give both +ve and -ve ions with more than 1 charge.\n\nYes salts of all alkline earth metals (+ve2) with ions of more than one atoms (CO3,PO4 etc) having more than 1 -ve charge dissociate in the way you need to know.
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Some clouds contain +ve charge & some contain -ve. When both clouds come together in contact, they produce electricity which is the lightning.......
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Try:\nhttp://science.howstuffworks.com/lightning.htm\nAlso:\nhttp://science.howstuffworks.com/question182.htm\nand\nhttp://science.howstuffworks.com/question646.htm
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There is a great article to read on this, from How Stuff Works.  Its under "How Lightning Works", but it talks about both lightning and thunder.  My students got a lot out of it.
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the elements most likely to form ionic bonds have low ionization energies (such as the alkali metals and the alkaline earth metals, which form cations) or high electron affinities (such as halogens and oxygen, which form cations).
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The answers are KCl, CaF2, and Na2O. Potassium has one electron on the outer ring while chlorine has seven. To make chlorine's ring "full" potassium gives the one electron to chlorine. They are "happy" now. :) That's what my science teacher told me. He's weird.
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i know this i learned this in chemistry last year. it was because in his gold foil experiment the light beam that he used to shine through the foil would have some of the ions in the light pass through, wait i got lost just go to ask.com
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Well electricity needs a path to travel in. Electricity can flow in wires, or other conductors, like a plasma, which consists of charged particles; that is, the electrons have been stripped off the atoms because they are so energetic, leaving just a seething collection of positive and negative particles (said to be "ionized"). In a lightning strike, a path of charged particles extends between the cloud and the ground, or some other object near the ground like a tree or a lightning rod or building (or sometimes between one cloud and another). The electricity in lightning follows this charged path. \n\nIf you can use a powerful laser or some other technique to form an ionized path in the air, then electricity can follow that ionized path, just like it does in lightning (or in Van de Graff generator experiments).
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Electricity is made up of electrons.  It is the flow of electrons that causes electricity to do work.\n600 B.C. Thales of Miletus writes about amber becoming charged by rubbing - he was describing what we now call static electricity.\nFirst electric motor 1821 First electric motor (Faraday).
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The sun and lightning may seem to be equal, but it appears that lightning is 5 times hotter than the sun. The sun's surface is 1,000°F. Times that by 5, and you have the temp of a lightning bolt.
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Lightning is an electrical connection between the ground and the sky, it can come from the ground or from the sky or from both at the same time and meet somewhere in between.
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No.\n\nThe electric charge that causes lightning on the Earth, Jupiter and Saturn is built up in the atmosphere from the solar radiation that hits the atmosphere.\n\nThough the solar particles have an electric charge, without a dense atmosphere, acting as a capacitor to allow the building up of large charges, you don't get lightning bolts. A lightening bolt requires a million volts per meter. \n\nIndividual solar particles interact with other particles but the discharge is of the magnitude of a few electrons worth of charge.  The elves and aurora are caused by solar particles striking the upper atmosphere. But the eleves and aurora are not lightning bolts.   \n\nWithout a dense enough atmosphere there can be no lightning. \n\nThe moon does have a tenuous atmosphere but it is not dense enough to act as a capacitor. \n\nTycho crater was formed from more than one meteorite impact. There was the main impact and then smaller impacts on the big scar.\n\nThe youngest crater is Giordano Bruno and you can see that it has not been overlaid with other impacts.