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- noun Plural form of
fulgurite .
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Called fulgurites from the Latin fulgur for thunderbolt these shafts of "solid lightning"
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Even lightning that strikes sandy soils can produce glass, in the form of wickedly shaped fulgurites embedded in the ground and sometimes called petrified lightning.
Volcanic ash and cotton candy share molecular characteristics with glass Ivan Amato 2010
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There are also fulgurites which are the formation you get when lightning hits sandy substrates which supports the idea of climate change which would have produced vegitation ie it got wetter - it started to rain and plants grew their root sort of stoped the dune sand from being blown about.
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There are also fulgurites which are the formation you get when lightning hits sandy substrates which supports the idea of climate change which would have produced vegitation ie it got wetter - it started to rain and plants grew their root sort of stoped the dune sand from being blown about.
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Beudant31 succeeded in making tubes, in most respects similar to these fulgurites, by passing very strong shocks of galvanism through finely-powdered glass: when salt was added, so as to increase its fusibility, the tubes were larger in every dimension.
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Beudant31 succeeded in making tubes, in most respects similar to these fulgurites, by passing very strong shocks of galvanism through finely-powdered glass: when salt was added, so as to increase its fusibility, the tubes were larger in every dimension.
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The depth to which lightning may penetrate before it is so dissipated as to lose its dangerous character is shown by the fulgurites, or
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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Beudant11 succeeded in making tubes, in most respects similar to these fulgurites, by passing very strong shocks of galvanism through finely-powdered glass: when salt was added, so as to increase its fusibility, the tubes were larger in every dimension.
Chapter III 1909
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In sand or rock, where lightning has struck, it often forms long hollow tubes, known to the calmly discriminating geological intelligence as fulgurites, and looking for all the world like gigantic drills such as quarrymen make for putting in a blast.
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873
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M. Beudant succeeded in making tubes, in most respects similar to these fulgurites, by passing very strong shocks of galvanism through finely-powdered glass: when salt was added, so as to increase its fusibility, the tubes were larger in every dimension.
The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 1845
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