Chapter 5:

Ducking First A Flash And Then A Roar

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• 5.1 Lightning
• 5.2 Lightning: people, cows, and sheep  update July 2006   Mar 2008
• 5.3 Lightning: vehicles   update Sep 2007   May 2009
• 5.4 Lightning: trees, towers, and ground  update Aug 2009
• 5.5 Bead and ball lightning    update Oct 2008
• 5.6 Sprites   update June 2010
• 5.7 Lightning rods
• 5.8 Sweaters, playground slides, and surgery rooms   update Feb 2007  Jan 2008  Dec 2009   May 2012
• 5.9 Cars, fuel pumps, and pit stops    update Mar 2009
• 5.10 SHORT STORY: Shocking exchange of gum
• 5.11 Danger of powder floating in the air   update Mar 2008
• 5.12 Danger of aerosol cans
• 5.13 Danger of spraying water
• 5.14 Ski glow
• 5.15 Hindenburg disaster
• 5.16 A gurney fire
• 5.17 Glow in peeling adhesive tape    update Nov 2008
• 5.18 Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
• 5.19 Wintergreen glow in the closet
• 5.20 Earthquake lights
• 5.21 St. Elmo’s fire and Andes glow   update Mar 2011
• 5.22 High-voltage lines
• 5.23 Current, voltage, and people
• 5.24 SHORT STORY: An act of indiscretion
• 5.25 Use of current in surgery
• 5.26 Surgical fires and explosions
• 5.27 Lemon battery, tingling of teeth fillings
• 5.28 Electric fish and eels
• 5.29 Charging by blown dust, sand, and snow     update Apr 2007  Jan 2008   Jun 2009
• 5.30 Lightning-like discharges above a volcano   update May 2010 
• 5.31 Bacterial contamination in surgery update July 2006
• 5.32 Bees and pollination
• 5.33 SHORT STORY: Fire ants and electrical equipment
• 5.34 Plastic food wrap
• 5.35 Flies on ceilings, geckos on walls
• 5.36 Meringue pie
• 5.37 Sauce béarnaise
• 5.38 Lodestones
• 5.39 Earth’s magnetic field and archaeology
• 5.40 MRI complications   update June 2010
• 5.41 SHORT STORY: Magnetic search for the Garfield bullet
• 5.42 Magnets, tattoos, and body jewelry
• 5.43 Breakfast and cow magnetism   update Nov 2011
• 5.44 Electric guitars
• 5.45 Electric-guitar amplifiers
• 5.46 Auroras
• 5.47 Solar eruptions and power outages
• 5.48 Levitating frogs
• 5.49 Fizzing sound from a magnet
• 5.50 Currents in you at a train station      Click on new to get the following new items (not in the book)
• 5.51 Coal fires and Earth's magnetic field   Dec 2006 
• 5.52 Toilet stall electric field   Feb 2007
• 5.53 Razorbacks on Mars and in the kitchen      April 2007
• 5.54 Wall-climbing robots  Aug 2010
• 5.55 Knitting needles in space     Aug 2012