Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A slender, usually tubular body of glassy rock produced by lightning striking and then fusing dry sandy soil.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An explosive of the nitroglycerin class, used for blasting: similar to dynamite, but the nature of the dope has not been disclosed by the inventor.
- noun A tube formed, usually in loose sand, but sometimes in the solid rock, by lightning; a lightning-tube.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A vitrified sand tube produced by the striking of lightning on sand; a lightning tube; also, the portion of rock surface fused by a lightning discharge.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
glass formed by alightning strike melting sand or other material
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The unheated soil associated with the fulgurite is a tan, sandy silt.
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I found a fulgurite, once It was broken off near where the boiled sand first fused to glass and ended about six inches down the stem.
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I found a fulgurite, once It was broken off near where the boiled sand first fused to glass and ended about six inches down the stem.
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Is the light grey stone on the right part of the matrix surrounding the fulgurite?
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The photographer says that the entire fulgurite is about 10 cm in diameter, but this photograph is only a detail.
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During the lightning strike, the soil heated up to the gray color shown in this photo, forming the exterior of the fulgurite, and individual grains are cemented together with a small amount of glass.
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It was a fulgurite, Laura told him, sand fused the moment it was struck by lightning.
The Tenth Circle Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 2006
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It was a fulgurite, Laura told him, sand fused the moment it was struck by lightning.
The Tenth Circle Jodi Picoult 2006
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"The lab reported the explosive had been chemical - fulgurite-B, the name is."
Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983
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Also found in the altar trench was a sample of fulgurite or petrified lightning.
ericminton commented on the word fulgurite
A naturally forming hollow glass tube; created when certain types of sand are struck by lightning.
September 17, 2008