Assertion: lightning | /r/HasProperty | electricity
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text: Lightning is electricity, not some kind of evil force.
text: Al Peterlin: Lightning is electricity.
text: Al Peterlin: Lightning is electricity and it flows through the objects it comes in contact with as it moves to the ground.
text: The lightning protection industry began in the United States when Benjamin Franklin postulated that lightning was electricity, and a metal rod could be used to carry the lightning away from a building.
text: To put it simply, lightning is electricity; thunder is sound.
text: Then came his kite and key experiments in 1752-53 and Franklin's deduction that lightning was electricity.
text: There were other scientists who believed that lightning was electricity, but Franklin was determined to find a method of proving it.
text: By 1750, in addition to wanting to prove that lightning was electricity, Franklin began to think about protecting people, buildings, and other structures from lightning.