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Meanings of corona discharge in English

Portuguese
fogo-de-santelmo

An electrical discharge accompanied by ionization of surrounding atmosphere.

      fogo-de-santelmo
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      Examples for "corona"
      Examples for "corona"
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      I'm definitely corona free haha, she wrote on Instagram on September 1.
      News.com.au
      2
      But it would not take in the extreme limits of the corona.
      Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, an...
      3
      The only risk factor for corona is my age -I'm 71.
      The Guardian
      4
      Mercury continued to move out through the corona for another 30 minutes.
      The South African
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      I've been reading more dystopian fiction than ever during the corona crisis.
      The Guardian
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      His body was aglow with corposant.
      Iron Council
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      But couldn't that crackling hair have been nothing more than the electrical discharge that Keith called corposant, St Elmo's Fire?
      The Pariah
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      I looked, and saw a corposant, as it is called at sea,- aSt.Elmo's fire,-burningat the end of the crossjack-yard.
      Stories by English Authors: The Sea
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      I had seen a ship, and there she was to leeward of us, with the corposant clinging to one of her spars.
      The Log of a Privateersman
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      Meanwhile, determined Paul flew hither and thither like the meteoric corposant-ball, which shiftingly dances on the tips and verges of ships' rigging in storms.
      Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile
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      I remembered the St. Elmo's fire that had flamed from the cracking plant.
      The Night of the Long Knives
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      Caradoc was still explaining the theory of St. Elmo's fire to the listening men.
      The Cruise of the Dry Dock
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      The top of the skeletal cracking plant across the freeway glowed with St. Elmo's fire!
      The Night of the Long Knives
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      Just then Caradoc's grave voice hazarded: That must be an extraordinary display of St. Elmo's fire.
      The Cruise of the Dry Dock
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      Hurry. The St. Elmo's fire was flickering wildly now, and popped every time he pronounced a hard consonant.
      The Anubis Gates
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      The electric glow was surrealistic as they slowly drifted toward their rendezvous point.
      The Sails of Tau Ceti
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      Look at the electric glow that comes from the third finger of Laura's left hand.
      Dick Prescott's Fourth Year at West Point / Or, Ready to Drop th...
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      At six o'clock day began to break, and with the dawn's early light, the narwhale's electric glow disappeared.
      Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of th...
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      His touch seemed to kindle in her an electric glow, and with something like alarm she withdrew her hand.
      The Daughter of an Empress
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      He sat up in his sleeping bag and saw the cliff below him light up with an electric glow.
      Climbing Magazine
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