fulguration

  1. Noun.  The quality of flashing like lightning.
  2. Noun.  (medicine) Cauterization with electricity; electrocautery.
  3. Noun.  (chemistry, obsolete) The sudden brightening of a fused globule of gold or silver, when the last film of the oxide of lead or copper leaves its surface; also called blick.

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