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Lichtenberg figures are branching, tree-like
patterns that are created by the passage of high voltage electrical
discharges along the surface, or through, electrically insulating
materials (dielectrics). The first Lichtenberg figures were actually
2-dimensional dust figures that formed when dust in the air
settled on the surface of electrically-charged plates of resin in the
laboratory of their discoverer, German physicist, Georg Christoph
Lichtenberg (1742-1799).
Lichtenberg figures, sometimes called
“lightning flowers” or “skin feathering”, often form beneath the skin of
unfortunate humans who have been struck by lightning. The victim often
has one or more reddish radiating feathery patterns that branch outward
from the entry and exit points of the strike.
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