Lightning creates a strange form of crystal rarely seen in nature
The violent fingers of electricity that struck a sand dune in Nebraska left behind a crystal pattern rarely found in nature. Inside a piece of fulgurite – or “fossilized lightning” – created by a powerful electric bolt traveling through the sand and causing it to fuse together, scientists have found a quasicrystal, an arrangement of …
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