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... Thunder is probably the most common of all loud natural sounds, while other acoustic emissions are not ordinarily observed without special devices. THUNDER THE RADIATION FROM HOT CHANNELS Spectrographic studies of lightning return strokes (Orville, 1968)
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... . The time-resolved spectra of return strokes (Orville, 1968)
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