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Wed 14 May, 2003 01:39 pm
What is the origin of the word "fulgurite" a piece of glass made when lightning strikes sandy ground sometimes called a "thunderbolt" erroniously confused with the lightning and noise etc.
Simon.
>>fulgur<< is Latin for 'lightning'.
Forgot to welcome you!
The German word "Donnerkeil" ('thunder wedge', a hatchet from the stone-age) originally refers to fulgurites, btw.
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