Fit quoque, ubi e nubi in nubem vis incidit ardens fulminis: haec multo si forte umore recepit ignem, continuo magno clamore trucidat, ut calidis candens ferrum e fornacibus olim stridit, ubi in gelidum propter demersimus imbrem.
Thunder occurs also when the burning force of lightning falls from a cloud upon a cloud: if this cloud chance to be soaked with water when it receives the fire, it makes a great noise in destroying it at once, just as white-hot iron from the hot furnace often hisses when we have dipped it into cold water near by.
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