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? asked in Science & MathematicsPhysics · 4 years ago

Will lightning charge your iPhone instantly?

If you attach wires to a metal conductor on the roof during a lightning storm and connect that to your phone, will it be instantly charged?If you attach wires to a metal conductor on the roof during a lightning storm and connect that to your phone, will it be instantly charged?

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  • Will
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    Lightning will charge it, discharge it, melt it and fry it faster than you can comprehend what is happening.

  • Sinid
    4 years ago

    It will probably blow up

  • ?
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    Wrong amperage, wrong voltage, sorry, no. I suppose a persn could technically charge a capacitor that fed into a battery bank,, but I'm still going with no and impossible

  • Colin
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    No, but you'll be charged instantly with stupidity beyond the call of duty.

  • Steven S
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    You will be famous. There will be stories told about you that will go "remember that kid who tried to charge his phone with a bolt of lightning"?

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