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lightning is also uncountable, meaning we can´t use the article 'a', but we can use 'the'. If you want to specify a quantity for lightning we use the quantifier 'a bolt of lightning'

A bolt of lightning = one instance of lightning
2 bolts of lightning = two instances of lightning

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