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QUERY. 
Can any reader of Sczence cite 
a case of lightning stroke in 
which the dissipation of a small 
conductor (one-sixteenth of an 
inch in diameter, say, ) has failed 
to protect between two horizon- 
tal planes passing through its 
upper and lower ends respective 
ly? »Plenty of cases have been 
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conductor is dissipated the build- 
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explained (for many of these see 
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actions at the time when light- 
ning was attracting the attention 
of the Royal Society), but not 
an exception is yet known, al 
though this query has been pub 
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