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from Deykun@kbin.social to science_memes@mander.xyz on 03 Apr 2024 14:38
https://kbin.social/m/science_memes@mander.xyz/t/938385
from Deykun@kbin.social to science_memes@mander.xyz on 03 Apr 2024 14:38
https://kbin.social/m/science_memes@mander.xyz/t/938385
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how about no
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.
Case in point, obsidian.
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.
I wonder how they figured that out
Did molten lava touch sand and then they were like 😳
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It’s like minecraft.
Maybe tektites? Natural glass formed when
lightningmeteorites strikessand. I only remember the name because they share it with the jumpy spiders from ZeldaOh look there’s a whole Wikipedia page on it
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_glass
Possibly an accidental byproduct of metal working
Ha, nice reference
Jules Verne wrote about this in one of his novels. The mysterious island, iirc.
I thought you were talking about tektites for a second.
When lightning strikes sand it creates fulgerites.
Tektites are formed when meteorites strike.
I am sorry for insulting your people
Right. Now don’t do it again!
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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 course, I know basically nothing about [pre]history or human development so I could be way off
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.
3090 degrees is above its boiling point (which is 2950 degrees).
So it doesn’t become “clear”, it literally vaporises.
You are talking Celsius while the meme is likely referring to F (you can tell because Obama)
When will the US finally use the metric system 😮💨
Anti Commercial AI thingy
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This ambiguity is what I had in mind when I read “let me be clear”. Though now I get it.
first it becomes glowy orange tho
Oozy orange blob is the Trump phase.
More like an orangey white like an incandescent bulb, maybe.
Glassblowers: thanks Obama
well this is my favorite post.