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What type of component did Popov's wireless lightning detector use to detect radio noise?
Resistor
Capacitor
Transistor
Coherer
Answer
Popov's wireless lightning detector used a coherer to detect radio noise from lightning strikes. The coherer is a primitive form of radio signal detector that was used in early radio receivers.
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