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  2. Fulgurite - Wikipedia

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    Fulgurites are formed when lightning strikes the ground, fusing and vitrifying mineral grains. [7] The primary SiO 2 phase in common tube fulgurites is lechatelierite, an amorphous silica glass. Many fulgurites show some evidence of crystallization: in addition to glasses, many are partially protocrystalline or microcrystalline.

  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 is 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. 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.

  6. 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

  7. 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 ]

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  9. Trinitite - Wikipedia

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    Following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, it was discovered in 2016 that between 0.6% and 2.5% of sand on local beaches was fused glass spheres formed during the bombing. Like trinitite, the glass contains material from the local environment, including materials from buildings destroyed in the attack. The material has been called hiroshimaite ...