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  2. Fulgurite - Wikipedia

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    Typical broken fulgurite sections. Fulgurites (from Latin fulgur 'lightning' and -ite), commonly called "fossilized lightning", are natural tubes, clumps, or masses of sintered, vitrified, or fused soil, sand, rock, organic debris and other sediments that sometimes form when lightning discharges into ground.

  3. Lichtenberg figure - Wikipedia

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    A lightning strike can also create a large Lichtenberg figure in grass surrounding the point struck. These are sometimes found on golf courses or in grassy meadows. [12] Branching root-shaped "fulgurite" mineral deposits may also be created as sand and soil are fused into glassy tubes by the intense heat of the current.

  4. Vitrified sand - Wikipedia

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    Vitrified sand is a type of natural glass, contrasted with manufactured glass in which soda ash or potash are added to lower the melting point. Pure quartz melts at 1,650 °C (3,002 °F). There are several natural processes that produce more or less melted sand and one man-made form: Fulgurite is sand fused by a lightning bolt hitting sand.

  5. Desert glass - Wikipedia

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    Desert glass may refer to: Libyan desert glass, in Egypt and Libya; Atacama desert glass, in Chile; Edeowie glass, in South Australia; Darwin glass, in West Coast, Tasmania; Fulgurite, lumps of glass formed by lightning; Trinitite, a more specialised subclass is that formed during a nuclear explosion

  6. Joyce J. Scott - Wikipedia

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    Joyce J. Scott (born 1948) is an African-American artist, sculptor, quilter, performance artist, installation artist, print-maker, lecturer and educator.Named a MacArthur Fellow in 2016, [1] [2] and a Smithsonian Visionary Artist in 2019, [3] Scott is best known for her figurative sculptures and jewelry using free form, off-loom beadweaving techniques, similar to a peyote stitch. [4]

  7. Trinitite - Wikipedia

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    Trinitite, also known as atomsite or Alamogordo glass, [1] [2] is the glassy residue left on the desert floor after the plutonium-based Trinity nuclear bomb test on July 16, 1945, near Alamogordo, New Mexico. The glass is primarily composed of arkosic sand composed of quartz grains and feldspar (both microcline and smaller amount of plagioclase ...

  8. Man goes viral after decorating entire block with Christmas ...

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    John Reichart decided to go "all in" this year by decorating every house on his block with Christmas lights for his wife who has Alzheimer's.

  9. Waylande Gregory - Wikipedia

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    Waylande Gregory was born in Baxter Springs, Kansas in 1905. His mother was a concert pianist, and his father was a farmer.From an early age he showed precocious artistic talent, beginning with small sculptures of animals in earth, as well as prodigious musical talent, even composing his own pieces.

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