Fused glass specimen, undated
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- Artifact-box 339, Item hsmith0001
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Housed in wooden box made for shipping this item.
Unknown material, possibly silica glass. One common way in which lechatelierite forms naturally is by very high temperature melting of quartz sand during a lightning strike. Lechatelierite may also form artificially, a unique example being the trinitite produced by melting of quartz sand at the first nuclear bomb explosion at Trinity Flats, White Sands, New Mexico.
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- Received from: Dr. D.J. Smith
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