The results captured the imagination of the public, who were intrigued by the use of electric discharges to form the prebiotic soup. (science.sciencemag.org)
Therefore, during intense solar storms, the regolith is expected to dissipate the build - up of charge too slowly to avoid the destructive effects of a sudden electric discharge, called dielectric breakdown. (sciencedaily.com)
And an everlasting impression was left in the public's imagination by Mary W. Shelley's Frankenstein (1818), in which Eramus Darwin gained a place for his advocacy of therapies based on electric discharges. (science.sciencemag.org)