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Definition of Fulgurites
1. fulgurite [n] - See also: fulgurite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fulgurites
Literary usage of Fulgurites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Popular Lectures on Science and Art: Delivered in the Principal Cities and by Dionysius Lardner (1849)
"Their Formations in some Cases are recent—Sand fused by artificial Heat into the
State of the fulgurites.— Artificial fulgurites formed by the Electrical ..."
2. Elements of Meteorology, with Questions for Examination, Designed for by John Brocklesby (1869)
"fulgurites. When a flash of lightning falls upon sand, its path below the ...
fulgurites were first discovered in Silesia, in 1711, and specimens were ..."
3. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1860)
"These were two fulgurites, having the ordinary appearance, being round and as
thin as sheets of paper, perfectly enamelled on the inside, but garnished on ..."
4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1867)
"ON THE FORMATION OF fulgurites. In June 1809, a violent thunder-storm occurred
at Oldenburg, ... These were two fulgurites, having the ordinary appearance, ..."
5. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1908)
"fulgurites are tubes formed by lightning striking sand or rock and fusing it.
The fact that the tubes formed are of two sorts—strong, rocky, thick-walled ..."
6. Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1871-78 by Spencer Fullerton Baird (1875)
"COMPOSITION OF fulgurites. fulgurites or sand-tubes, usually regarded as formed
of silica, fused by electrical discharges, according to analyses by Scholz, ..."
7. Meteorological Essays by François Arago, Alexander von Humboldt, Edward Sabine (1855)
"LIGHTNING TUBES, OR fulgurites. MT readers must now have become so familiar ...
subject of much animated debate, respecting lightning tubes, or fulgurites. ..."
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