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Fulgurite comes from the Latin term fulgur, meaning “thunderbolt”. These petrified tubes of lightening are formed when lightening strikes quartz sand in the ground and fuses the molecules together. It takes temperatures of 1800 degrees Celsius to turn the sand into fulgurite. Lightning is hot enough to make this happen, but the creation of fulgurite is still very rare.
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