like in the movie "sweet home alabama" when josh lucas made glass and stuck the metal rods and the sand on the beach.
2006-12-28 13:50:04 · 8 answers · asked by bigal14_2009 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Sculpture
Much of the sand you see around the county is composed of quartz, and when quartz is melted and cools quickly it forms glass. Just about all of glass that you see in stores is formed by melting sand. The path of the lightning is reflected by the shape of the resulting glass "carrot."
The technical term for the glass formed from lightning is fulgerite If you search for the term in Yahoo there is at least one website that has a photo gallery for them, and I suspect you'll find them interesting and probably beautiful.
2006-12-28 14:01:23 · answer #1 · answered by djlachance 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Glass is highly refined. Blown glass has been around since the Ancient Romans, but they couldn't figure out how to make it super clear (it was always tinted a slight color). It took centuries for people to figure out the correct composition of sand, lime, and other things, so a lightning rod + sand will probably not make a clear blob of glass, much less a physically stable one.
2016-03-28 23:03:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sand is mainly made up of sillica which is the main ingredient of glass.
metal rods are lightning conductors(attracts lightning) especially in open areas like the beach and lightning contains a great deal of energy which translate to so much heat that sand fuses into glass.
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gabe
2006-12-29 17:05:41 · answer #3 · answered by gabegm1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The basic building block of glass is silica. The majority of beach sand is composed of silica and is the raw material of glass. The lightning heats the silica in the sand to beyond its melting point and therefore you get glass.
2006-12-28 17:51:32 · answer #4 · answered by B.Dunc 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it heats the sand to melting and fusing temp by its resistance to the electrical charge develope in the lightnning it will do it without the rods walking along the beach from time to time you will find small clumps of fused sandy glass.... that is from lightning
2006-12-29 09:05:43 · answer #5 · answered by doc 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
glass is formed when sand is heated.lightning causes heat ,so the sand gets heated and turns into glass.
2006-12-28 13:54:10 · answer #6 · answered by spiritedevil06 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, glass is sand.
2006-12-28 13:52:52 · answer #7 · answered by it's still me 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't. It actually makes a hollow rock like formation. Go to www.imdb.com and type in the movie title. They explained it on there.
2006-12-28 13:55:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋