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1. LONDON TIMES,
London, England, Jan. 4, 1971-Science Report-WEATHER, “How
Lightning May be Produced,”
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.... .the observation of this separation process may therefore
be the prime factor in the generation of thunderstorm electricity....”
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2. ANN ARBOR NEWS, Jan. 31, 1971-The Science Beat, “Causes
Lightning?”
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. .A. D. Moore, University of
Michigan, Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering, and
one of the world’s foremost authorities on
electrostatics, says what could be the big ‘breakthrough’
in knowledge of what causes electrical discharges during thunder
storms.....
.the best explanation yet of the electrical discharges we
hear as thunder and see as lightning...”
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3. NEW SCIENTIST, London, England, Vol. 734, Jan. 1971. “
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. .recent observation by Roger Cheng of the University of
New York reveals a fascinating new microscopic process which
almost certainly has an important bearing on how thunderclouds
become charged to their high voltages....”
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4. SUMMARY REPORT WEATHER MODIFICATION, Fiscal Year 1972,
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by
U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic
& Atmospheric Administration
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from
chapter Cloud Electricity and Lightning Modification, “.....investigators
from the State University of New York at Albany (Cheng, 1970)
have been studying the freezing of super cooled water drops.
suggestion that this mechanism might be important in the generation
of thunderstorm electricity....”
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5. Dr. J. V. Iribame, University of Toronto, Canada,
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.....
I believe that separation of liquid droplets, rather than ice splinters, may be a basic process causing electrification during riming of super cooled droplet....”
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6. Dr. Herbert A. Phol, University of Cambridge, England,
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.it opens up several new pathways. .1 am citing
your work in my chapter in A.D. Moore’s forthcoming book on
Electrostatics....”
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7. Dr.
Senichi Masuda, Chairman, Dept. of Electrical Engineering,
University of Tokyo, Japan,
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.1 would like to use the photomicrograph related to your
article in SCIENCE, ..'Water Drop Freezing: Ejection of Microdroplets' in
my book, “MODERN APPLIED ELECTROSTATICS”.
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8. Dr.
Leonard B. Loeb, Professor of Physics,
University of California, Berkeley, “
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...
it could well be that this is one of
the main sources of thunderstorm electrification—
especially since it has been shown that B.J.
Mason’s splintering theory has proven inadequate..,
you have made a most interesting discovery.
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9. Dr. C. L. Andrews, Professor of Physics, SUNYA,
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.....
it is the most beautiful combination of mechanics, thermodynamics,
electricity and magnetism and optics... you have initiated
a field worthy of a few lifetimes of study...
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10. Britanica Yearbook
of Science and the Future,
1973, BRITANICA ENCYCLOPEDIA,
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from
Review of Atmospheric Science, by Dr.
L. J. Battan, Professor of Atmospheric Science,
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Director
of the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona,
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.this separation mechanism could possibly generate lightning
in storm clouds...
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11. The World Book Science Annual 1974, SCIENCE
YEAR from Science Report “The New Rainmaker”
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by Dr. C. L. Hosler, Dean, College
of Earth & Mineral Sciences, Penn State University, “
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...tiny
particles of ice break off..., and scattering electrically
charged micro-droplets..., such studies help explain rapid
changes in
the cloud...”
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12. Dr. Choji
Magono, Professor, Geophysical Sciences, Hokkaido
University, Japan,
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Chairman:
Section of Ice and Snow Crystals, International
Conference on Cloud Physics, 1968 in his keynote paper
at the conference, .... .Cheng (1967) observed many clumped
ice crystals and considered that the clumping was caused by
Coulomb force. The author also observed clumped ice crystals...and
found that the clumping seemed to occur under a microscope
by Coulomb force...”
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13. From
“Aggregation Phenomena of Ice Crystals,” Journal of the Meteorological
Society of Japan,
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Vol. 50, No. 5, October, 1972, “......it
is noted.. .that the ice crystals observed were in a state
of growth in which the charge separation could occur within
an ice crystal, as pointed out by Cheng (1967).”
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