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Wednesday's just got smarter with the Fun Kids Science midweekly, your mini-science special.

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This week, Max asks how lightning and thunder form.

Paola wonders why diamonds are unbreakable. We've got Madison who wants to know how people

names storms. Tilly's asking how bubbles are made and Jenny is intrigued about who created the

English language.

Let's get one on then. This is from Max. What do you got, Max?

How is lightning and thunder made?

All right, how is lightning and thunder formed?

Well, when a cloud gets really big and really tall, when it's full of water and it gets heavier and heavier,

it can turn into a thunderstorm cloud. Now, inside the cloud, there are tiny pieces of ice and water,

and they're moving around very quickly. They're jostling. They're bumping into each other as they circle through the sky.

And when they bump around a lot, they get charged up.

They make electricity.

These are positive and negatively charged particles.

That's the way electrons work.

You get a plus, you get a minus of them.

The problem is, if the cloud gets too much electricity,

too many of these charged particles, it needs to get rid of it. So, some of those charged

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