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Is lightning "fire"?

petrushka.googol
in Modern and Theoretical Physics

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Lightning is an ionized plasma like fire.

 

Is there then a synergy between the two?

 

Can "fire" then be created in space (as an ionized plasma, not as we know it on earth?)

 

Please advise.

 

Thanks in advance.

Moving electric charges in ionized plasma are lightning.smile.png

Edited by DimaMazin

Moving electric charges in ionized plasma are lightning.smile.png

 

You have that backwards. Not all instances of moving electric charges in ionized plasma are lightning, and fire is one of those instances. Lightning and fire are examples of plasma, but universal affirmatives can only be partially converted.

 

You have that backwards. Not all instances of moving electric charges in ionized plasma are lightning, and fire is one of those instances. Lightning and fire are examples of plasma, but universal affirmatives can only be partially converted.

Then lightning is motion of electrical charges with turning of their potential energy into kinetic energy ,which transforms atmosphere into plasma and creates sound wave.tongue.png

Then lightning is motion of electrical charges with turning of their potential energy into kinetic energy ,which transforms atmosphere into plasma and creates sound wave.tongue.png

 

Yes. But it's not fire.

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