Fulgurites (from Latin fulgur 'lightning', and -ite), commonly called "fossilized lightning", are natural tubes, clumps, or masses of sintered, vitrified...

melt glass. While trinitite and similar materials are anthropogenic, fulgurites, found in many thunderstorm-prone regions and in deserts, are naturally-formed...

The spire-like shape of Thielsen attracts lightning strikes and creates fulgurite, an unusual mineral. The prominent horn forms a centerpiece for the Mount...

given the instantaneous nature of lightning strikes in general. However, fulgurite, a glassy tube-like, crust-like, or irregular mineraloid that forms when...

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...

natural or synthetic rubber (organic); lacks a crystalline structure Fulgurite, a variety of the mineraloid lechatelierite Jet, non-crystalline nature...

lightning strikes sand, forming hollow, branching rootlike structures called fulgurites. Trinitite is a glassy residue formed from the desert floor sand at the...

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...

sometimes found on golf courses or in grassy meadows. Branching root-shaped "fulgurite" mineral deposits may also be created as sand and soil is fused into glassy...

flash Latin fulmen "lightning flash" fulminant, fulminate, fulmination, fulgurite fung-, funct- do Latin fungī, fūnctus function, fungibility fur-, furt-...