Date: 30/01/2023 21:05:58
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1988533
Subject: Lightning Create a Strange Form of Crystal...
Lightning Strikes Create a Strange Form of Crystal Rarely Seen in Nature
The violent fingers of electricity that struck a sand dune in Nebraska have left behind a configuration of crystal rarely found in nature.
Inside a piece of fulgurite – or ‘fossilized lightning’ – created by a powerful bolt of electricity traveling into and fusing sand, scientists have found a quasicrystal, an arrangement of matter once thought to be impossible.
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Date: 30/01/2023 21:07:31
From: Spiny Norman
ID: 1988534
Subject: re: Lightning Create a Strange Form of Crystal...
Tau.Neutrino said:
Lightning Strikes Create a Strange Form of Crystal Rarely Seen in Nature
The violent fingers of electricity that struck a sand dune in Nebraska have left behind a configuration of crystal rarely found in nature.
Inside a piece of fulgurite – or ‘fossilized lightning’ – created by a powerful bolt of electricity traveling into and fusing sand, scientists have found a quasicrystal, an arrangement of matter once thought to be impossible.
more…
I have a fulgurite here. One of the firs things I bought on the internet.
Date: 30/01/2023 21:40:58
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1988541
Subject: re: Lightning Create a Strange Form of Crystal...
Within it, the researchers found a dodecahedral (twelve-sided) quasicrystal with the previously unreported composition
Mn72.3 Si15.6Cr9.7Al1.8Ni0.6.