![Can lightning really turn sand into glass? Meteorologist answers the 50,000-degree question | FOX8 WGHP Can lightning really turn sand into glass? Meteorologist answers the 50,000-degree question | FOX8 WGHP](https://myfox8.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2023/10/GettyImages-1442103792.jpg)
Can lightning really turn sand into glass? Meteorologist answers the 50,000-degree question | FOX8 WGHP
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Sand Struck by Lightning Totally Looks Like Nightmares and Ice | Lightning strikes, Amazing nature, Sand art
![Santa Cruz Biotechnology on X: "What lighting does to sand. Fulgurite: natural hollow glass tubes formed sand, silica, or soil by lightning strikes. http://t.co/X4a4W1eyTu" / X Santa Cruz Biotechnology on X: "What lighting does to sand. Fulgurite: natural hollow glass tubes formed sand, silica, or soil by lightning strikes. http://t.co/X4a4W1eyTu" / X](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPst2TpUAAAbxKT.jpg)
Santa Cruz Biotechnology on X: "What lighting does to sand. Fulgurite: natural hollow glass tubes formed sand, silica, or soil by lightning strikes. http://t.co/X4a4W1eyTu" / X
Manhattan Project National Historical Park - Fulgurites are also known as fossilized lightning. In reality, a lightning strike melts the sand and then fuses it. This fulgarite is in the dune field
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Lightning strikes as a major facilitator of prebiotic phosphorus reduction on early Earth | Nature Communications
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