How Does Lightning Turn Into Glass When It Strikes The Sand?
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Well i believe that you have a slight misunderstanding here, lightning doesn't turn into glass when it strikes sand, instead the heat produced by the lightning striking the ground is so intense that it melts the sand and turns it into glass. The same is with any object striking sand provided it should generate intense amount of heat to melt the sand and turn it into glass.
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Well when it hits the ground of the heat of 30,000 degrees it is like fire and can turn sand into glass .
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answered 7 months ago
Umm lightning doesnt make glass when the sand gets to a certain heat the sand will form a glossy cover turning it into glass
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First off all, as mentioned before, lightning does not turn into glass, rather the sand transforms into the glass. This is because the energy from the lightning (of which there is very much in a very small space) is transferred into the sand, which then causes to the snad to move extremely rapidly due to the excess in energy. While the said sand moves, it chemically bonds with all the other snad particles to form what we know as glass. Technically, kenetic energy from the heat from the electrical energy causes the particles to meld together, not the heat itself, but the heat causes the movement so it is debatable which causes the sand to turn to glass but regardless, the sand turns to glass and lightning can only turn into energy (being a meer bolt of electrical energy), because in general energies can only convert into toher energies and matter into matter (except for cases such as nuclear bombs but that is so complex it is basically negligable)
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answered 5 months ago
Sand and glass are made of same chemical called silicon dioxide. When lightning strikes the sand, it quickly melts the silica. If it cools quickly, it forms a amorphous glass.
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Lightning doesn't turn into glass; its the sand that turns into glass. The glass in your window is produced by heating sand to a liquid then cooling it into a non-crystalline solid in a process called vitrification. Lightning produces enough heat when it hits the sand to produce this process.
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answered 3 months ago
The sand turns into glass not the lightning....if you heat sand to extreme temp. It melts and turns into glass...which can be shaped or molded, then can be polished.
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answered 3 months ago
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answered 3 months ago
It is the tiny particles of silica which are found in abundance in sand gets melt with lightening heat to make glass over sand.
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Lightning doesn't turn to glass when it hits sad, rather sand turns to glass due to the lightning striking it with intense heat (~50,000ºF), forcing the sand (silica) to melt and form glass! Yay
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answered 2 months ago
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