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  2. 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 is fused into glassy tubes by the intense heat of the current.

  3. 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.

  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. Marlene Rose - Wikipedia

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    Rose pours molten glass – which she refers to as "lava" – into a sand mold, then waits upwards of six days for her pieces to cool in the oven before removing the piece from the mold. [ 3 ] Rose is strongly inspired by artistic traditions and past civilizations of African and Asian origin. [ 4 ]

  7. Sweet Home Alabama (film) - Wikipedia

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    The coonhound cemetery was on Moore Street in Crawfordville and the bar was located at Heavy's Barbecue near the town. Glass that forms when lightning hits sand, as in the film, is called fulgurite. Jake's glassblowing shop was filmed at an old mill named Starr's Mill, in Fayette County, Georgia.

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  9. Andrew Clemens - Wikipedia

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    In 2004, a Clemens' sand art glass bottle sold for $12,075 at auction. [citation needed] At another auction, a pair of his bottles were estimated to sell for $25,000-$35,000 but failed to sell. [9] [11] At auction in 2012, a Clemens sand bottle from the Paul Brenner Iowa Collection sold for $45,000 plus buyer's premium in Des Moines, Iowa.

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