If lightning strikes dry silica sand that is free of clay silt the heat can cause the sand to melt instantaneously and fuse into a glass structure called a fulgurite. When it hits a sandy beach high in silica or quartz and the temperature goes beyond 1800 degrees celsius the lighting can fuse the sand into silica glass.
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The movie portrays these glass sculptures as root like but fulgurites as the.
Lighting hitting sand. Glass is used every day in our lives. Sand melts at about 1800 degrees celsius but the temperature in a bolt of lighting can reach 30000 degrees or more than five times the temperature on the surface of the sun. Normally when you think of a piece of glass fitted in the window of your bedroom or the glass in big corporate windows or even the glass container youre drinking from right now i doubt you immediately think about violent interactions between lightning and sand.
Lightning is unpredictable and extremely dangerous. And you can find them on the beach. Fulgurite from the latin fulgur meaning lightning are natural tubes clumps or masses of sintered vitrified andor fused soil sand rock organic debris and other sediments that sometimes form when lightning discharges into groundfulgurites are classified as a variety of the mineraloid lechatelieritewhen ordinary negative polarity cloud ground lightning discharges into a grounding.
If conditions are right the fused sand forms long hollow tubes called fulgurite. Lightning can cause sand to form glass. If glass sculptures that beautiful could be created that way i think that lightning rods would cover beaches all over the world by people trying to get some more of those beautiful blown glass sculptures.
That means you can actually dig up petrified lightning if you know where to look. Top 7 most shocking lightning strikes to the water epic footage my new video. Honestly i also found this idea a bit surprising when i heard it for the first time.
Incredibly lightning can and does in fact create something amazing when it hits sand but the conditions have to be perfect. When lightning strikes sand on the beach or in a desert it creates glass tubes called fulgurites. The term comes from the latin word fulgur which means lightning.
Meteorologist alan raymond explains how glass comes from lightning and sand. Fulgurites are usually 1 to 2 inches in diameter and 2 feet or more in length. Sweet home alabama did get something right when super hot lightning at least 1800 degrees celsius3272 degrees fahrenheit hits sandy beaches high in silica or quartz it fuses the sand into silica glass beneath the ground.
The strike vaporizes the sand to make unique geologic creations. So much for lightning hitting sand and creating it.
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