2007-02-16 01:45:10 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Rather than a non-conductor wood is a poor conductor. A lightning bolt at perhaps three million volts seeks the easiest path to ground and because a tree is often the tallest target it gets struck. An especially poor conductor may allow lightning to pass only along its surface but for a green tree some of the electricity may enter and heat the wood causing it to explode with steam and shatter. Just had a very tall tri-trunk poplar removed because all three trunks were damaged with stripped bark along the paths of the lightning strike. Carpenter ants and woodpeckers did the rest. You could set up a card table and chairs on the remaining stump. The tree likely saved our house and will be sorely missed. Never stand under a tree in a lightning storm because it may attract lightning which can jump to you if you are an easier path.
2007-02-16 02:14:43 · answer #1 · answered by Kes 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
. Young trees do not let lightning pass through. They will explode like an old tree if struck by lightning. They are usually protected from lightning by the fact that adjoining older, taller trees will take they lightning hit because they are taller.
. As for letting the thunder pass through, well that is just too dumb to respond to.
2007-02-16 06:26:56 · answer #2 · answered by PoppaJ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All good answers, but make sure you understand that it's the "lightning" that passes through, not the "thunder". Thunder is just that sound that lightning makes.
2007-02-16 04:20:25 · answer #3 · answered by asgspifs 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The water in the wood allow electrisity to pass. Because of all the positive and negative mineral ions in the water the conductivity is quite high
2007-02-16 02:20:19 · answer #4 · answered by saurabh.sable 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The water in the wood allow electrisity to pass. Because of all the positive and negative mineral ions in the water the conductivity is quite high
2007-02-16 01:55:36 · answer #5 · answered by The Desert Bird 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The wood is not a conductor, but the water in capillaries running up a living tree is.
2007-02-16 01:51:42 · answer #6 · answered by novangelis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
all good answers ............ the thunder is the lightning breaking the speed of sound in the atmosphere .
2007-02-16 04:44:12 · answer #7 · answered by spaceman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is a natural phenomina
2007-02-16 17:18:12 · answer #8 · answered by rose 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋