Physical Chemistry of Ball Lighting

The proposed model of ball lightning, an intriguing object, presents it as a diffusive nitrogen combustion flame fed by constant atmospheric currents of spatial charges.


REFERENCES

  • G.P.Gladyshev, Thermodynamics and Macrokinetics of Natural Hierarchic Processes (in Russian), Nauka, Moscow, 1988.
  • G.P.Gladyshev, The High-Temperature Physico-Chemical Processes in the Lightning Storm Atmosphere (A Physico-Chemical Model of Ball Lighting). In: Science of Ball Lightning (Fire Ball), Tokyo, Japan, 4-6 July, 1988, Ed. Yoshi-Hiko Ohtsuki, Word Scientific, Singapore, New Jersey, London, Hong Kong, pp 242-253, 1989.