What's the different between lightning and electric?

Question

What's the different between lightning and electric?

Answer 1

There is not much difference.In fact, lightning is a large scale example of an electric spark.An electric spark occurs when the electric potential difference between two points separated by an dielctric(air in the case of lightning),exceeds the breakdown potential.This is what is exacly happens in the discharge of lightning

Answer 2

A lightning storm is also known as an electric storm.  Lightning is a (very powerful) flow of electrons along a zig-zag path of ionized air while electricity is (generally) a controlled  flow of electrons through a conductor such as a copper wire.

Answer 3

Electricity in your house wire is called "alternating current," because the electrons flow one direction, then one half of one-sixtieth of a second later they flow the opposite direction--and so on.  In lightning, on the other hand, they flow in one direction--from cloud to ground or ground to cloud in each lightning bolt.  Of course the voltages and currents in lightning are much much higher too.

Answer 4

Electricity as in what powers a bulb in out houses is a *constant flow* of charge from high to low potential,

whereas the lightning is causes due to accumulation of charges - static electricity.