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Fulgurites (from
Latin fulgur 'lightning', and -ite),
commonly called "fossilized lightning", are
natural tubes, clumps, or m****es of sintered, vitrified...
- The spire-like
shape of
Thielsen attracts lightning strikes and
creates fulgurite, an
unusual mineral. The
prominent horn
forms a
centerpiece for the Mount...
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given the
instantaneous nature of
lightning strikes in general. However,
fulgurite, a gl****y tube-like, crust-like, or
irregular mineraloid that
forms when...
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materials of
similar formation processes such as
lavinite are anthropogenic,
fulgurites,
found in many thunderstorm-prone
regions and in deserts, are naturally-formed...
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natural or
synthetic rubber (organic);
lacks a
crystalline structure Fulgurite, a
variety of the
mineraloid lechatelierite Jet, non-crystalline nature...
- Gl**** that
forms when
lightning hits sand, as in the film, is
called fulgurite. Jake's gl****blowing shop was
filmed at an old mill
named Starr's Mill...
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lightning strikes sand,
forming hollow,
branching rootlike structures called fulgurites.
Trinitite is a gl****y
residue formed from the
desert floor sand at the...
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flash Latin fulmen "lightning flash" fulminant, fulminate, fulmination,
fulgurite fung-, funct- do
Latin fungī, fūnctus function,
fungibility fur-, furt-...
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processes that
produce more or less
melted sand and one man-made form:
fulgurite is sand
fused by a
lightning bolt
hitting sand.
Impactite such as tektite...
- with the hail".
Wojciech speculates: "Probably a meteorite stone or a
fulgurite, colloquially known as petrified lightning." Cf. Sherira's commentary...
