Oh look there’s a whole Wikipedia page on it
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_glass
Possibly an accidental byproduct of metal working
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brisk@aussie.zone 7 months agoMaybe tektites? Natural glass formed when lightning strikes sand. I only remember the name because they share it with the jumpy spiders from Zelda
brisk@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
I thought you were talking about tektites for a second.
Hule@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Jules Verne wrote about this in one of his novels. The mysterious island, iirc.
_sideffect@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Ha, nice reference
tektite@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
When lightning strikes sand it creates fulgerites.
Tektites are meteorites that are formed when meteorites strike.
brisk@aussie.zone 7 months ago
I am sorry for insulting your people
tektite@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
Right. Now don’t do it again!
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