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3090 degrees is above its boiling point (which is 2950 degrees).
So it doesn't become "clear", it literally vaporises.
Glassblowers: thanks Obama
I wonder how they figured that out
Did molten lava touch sand and then they were like 😳
- Maybe tektites? Natural glass formed when ~~lightning~~ meteorites strikes sand. I only remember the name because they share it with the jumpy spiders from Zelda
  
  When lightning strikes sand it creates fulgerites.
  Tektites are formed when meteorites strike.
  
  Oh look there's a whole Wikipedia page on it
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_glass
  Possibly an accidental byproduct of metal working
  
  Jules Verne wrote about this in one of his novels. The mysterious island, iirc.
  
  Ha, nice reference
  
  I thought you were talking about tektites for a second.
- It’s like minecraft.
- If you spent your days cooking with fire, and your nights watching it and warming yourself, you'd definitely start tossing anything you could find into it just to see what would happen. People did this every day and night for eons.
- I think people just experimented a lot. Try enough random things, you're bound to come across cool chemistry every once in a while. If they figured out how to make really hot fire, that opens the path to "let's try making various things really hot to see what happens".
  Of course, I know basically nothing about [pre]history or human development so I could be way off
well this is my favorite post.
first it becomes glowy orange tho
- Oozy orange blob is the Trump phase.
- More like an orangey white like an incandescent bulb, maybe.
how about no

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