Fulgurites

[Meerkat]

Great article with lots of pics about lightening made glass

http://webecoist.com/2009/11/03/fulgurites-high-glass-digs-where-lightning-goes-to-die/

[vetropod]

Thanks for sharing!

[glassdocnc]

Very cool!

[menty666]

I like the part about the rockets and the wire. Very neat idea.

[richsantaclaus]

When I taught science, I had a full 30 minute video I showed the kids on how nature made these and man's attempts to reproduce them too - really neat stuff!

[lucidvisions]

Very cool, I knew they didn't look like the ones from "Sweet Home Alabama", lol.

Josh

[Greymatter Glass]

Nifty, I have a fulgerite collection somewhere from the lightning Farm down south of here. Also, a couple Oz of Trinitie also mentioned in the story...

[CripSkillz]

that was cool and I was thinkin why would you want to lighten your made glass hehhehe

[PTrautman]

I have to remember the fellow's name but he was doing lightning research down at the University of Florida and also was a part time lampworker. This was back in the late 1990's. He asked me for some colored boro frit . He and his team were packing sand into a PVC tube with a copper wire through it. They'd shoot the wire into a thunderstorm with a rocket and hope that lightening would strike it. They tried it with some colored frit. It worked and I actually have a few small pieces of fulgutite made that way. I'll dig em out and post a picture of one . It's kind of cool...

Paul Trautman

[blackstoneglass]

yeah I remember seeing an amber purple fulgerite that guy made at agi #2 and at gas brooklyn . They were pretty cool

[dorkeedude]

Shit! I had no clue that that actually happens!