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• neptune@dmv.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • teft@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Case in point, obsidian.

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    • neptune@dmv.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• 7heo@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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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  • neptune@dmv.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You are talking Celsius while the meme is likely referring to F

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    • onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      When will the US finally use the metric system 😮‍💨

      Anti Commercial AI thingy

      CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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    • Spzi@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This ambiguity is what I had in mind when I read “let me be clear”. Though now I get it.

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• Noodle07@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Glassblowers: thanks Obama

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• _sideffect@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I wonder how they figured that out

  Did molten lava touch sand and then they were like 😳

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  • brisk@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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    • tektite@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      When lightning strikes sand it creates fulgerites.

      Tektites are meteorites that are formed when meteorites strike.

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    • brisk@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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    • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I thought you were talking about tektites for a second.

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    • Hule@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Jules Verne wrote about this in one of his novels. The mysterious island, iirc.

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    • _sideffect@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ha, nice reference

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  • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s like minecraft.

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  • Olhonestjim@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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• unreasonabro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  well this is my favorite post.

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• lurch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  first it becomes glowy orange tho

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  • ivanafterall@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oozy orange blob is the Trump phase.

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  • robocall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    More like an orangey white like an incandescent bulb, maybe.

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• lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  how about no

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