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[Definition]
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/774964
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/550250
[Trivia Question]
Fulgurite long branch length
https://news.ufl.edu/archive/1997/05/experts-from-uf-dig-up-worlds-longest-solidified-lightning-bolt.html
https://oumnh.ox.ac.uk/fulgurites
[Fact Off]
Lycurgus cup and dichroic colored glass
https://www.compoundchem.com/2015/03/03/coloured-glass/
https://www.theguardian.com/nanotechnology-world/nanotechnology-is-ancient-history
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03215599
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/this-1600-year-old-goblet-shows-that-the-romans-were-nanotechnology-pioneers-787224/
Moon glass beads blasted by solar wind to make water
https://www.space.com/22215-solar-wind.html
https://www.science.org/content/article/moon-s-glass-beads-hold-watery-bounty
https://www.livescience.com/china-discovers-strange-glass-beads-on-moon-that-may-contain-billions-of-tons-of-water
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-find-water-in-glass-beads-from-the-moon-180981906/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Glass shower doors manufacturing & shattering
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/float-glass-process
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-is-tempered-glass-mad/
https://info.glass.com/what-causes-glass-shower-doors-to-explode/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11668-011-9432-5
[Butt One More Thing]
Medical fiber optics (aka good glass in the rectum)
https://www.nai-group.com/advances-in-medical-fiber-optic-instruments/
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/327300
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