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What is lightning?
It is a discharge of electricity (moving electrons) right?
What is radiation? Radiation- "the emission of energy as electromagnetic waves or as moving subatomic particles, especially high-energy particles that cause ionization."
So energy emitted as moving particles (electrons) is also lightning. So, lightning is radiant energy.
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