3090 degrees is damn close to its boiling point (which is 3265 degrees). So I’m pretty sure it “becomes clear” with temperatures a lot lower than that (it melts at 1414 degrees).
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Submitted 7 months ago by Deykun@kbin.social to science_memes@mander.xyz
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7heo@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
neptune@dmv.social 7 months ago
You are talking Celsius while the meme is likely referring to F
onlinepersona@programming.dev 7 months ago
When will the US finally use the metric system 😮💨
Anti Commercial AI thingy
Spzi@lemm.ee 7 months ago
This ambiguity is what I had in mind when I read “let me be clear”. Though now I get it.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Glassblowers: thanks Obama
_sideffect@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I wonder how they figured that out
Did molten lava touch sand and then they were like 😳
brisk@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Maybe tektites? Natural glass formed when lightning strikes sand. I only remember the name because they share it with the jumpy spiders from Zelda
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
Oh look there’s a whole Wikipedia page on it
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_glass
Possibly an accidental byproduct of metal working
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
jaybone@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s like minecraft.
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If you spent your days cooking with fire, and your nights watching it and warming yourself, you’d definitely start tossing anything you could find into it just to see what would happen. People did this every day and night for eons.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
I think people just experimented a lot. Try enough random things, you’re bound to come across cool chemistry every once in a while. If they figured out how to make really hot fire, that opens the path to “let’s try making various things really hot to see what happens”.
Of, I know basically nothing about [pre]history or human development so I could be way off
unreasonabro@lemmy.world 7 months ago
well this is my favorite post.
lurch@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
first it becomes glowy orange tho
ivanafterall@kbin.social 7 months ago
Oozy orange blob is the Trump phase.
robocall@lemmy.world 7 months ago
More like an orangey white like an incandescent bulb, maybe.
lowleveldata@programming.dev 7 months ago
how about no
neptune@dmv.social 7 months ago
It’s the cooling of silica (really, any material) that makes it a glass, and even then, transparency in the visual wavelength is not automatically certain.
teft@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Case in point, obsidian.
neptune@dmv.social 7 months ago
Good example. Obsidian is apparently 70% silica. Iron is apparently what makes it black in color. If it’s thin enough, it is translucent.
If you cool pure silica slowly enough, with impurities to cause seeding, you will get tons of crystals, not a single glass, that won’t be transparent.