单词 | fulgurite |
释义 | fulguriten. 1. Geology. Hard, glassy material formed of sand or other sediment fused by lightning; a piece of such material, commonly elongated and hollow. Cf. lechatelierite n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > igneous rock > [noun] > formed by lightning fulgurite1823 lightning stone1823 lightning tube1824 lightning bone1832 lightning rod1892 1823 H. J. Brooke Familiar Introd. Crystallogr. 488 Sand tubes; Astrapyalite; Blizsinter; Cerauniansinter; Fulgurite. 1834 M. Somerville On Connexion Physical Sci. (1849) xxvii. 312 Dr. Fiedler exhibited several of these fulgorites in London..dug out of the sandy plains of Silesia and Eastern Prussia. 1884 Cornhill Mag. Nov. 526 In sand or rock, where lightning has struck, it often forms long hollow tubes, known to the calmly discriminating geological intelligence as fulgurites. 1901 Science 29 Mar. 509/2 Dr. Julien exhibited a specimen of Fulgurite formed from sand, in Poland. 1992 I. Banks Crow Road (1993) iv. 98 Fulgurite..is made when lightning strikes unconsolidated sand, and fuses it. 2006 Focus Nov. 52/1 Most of the fulgurites that are for sale originated in the Sahara desert. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > explosive material > [noun] > other specific explosives powdera1393 gunpowder1411 saltpetre1501 petre1586 halinitre1608 sal-prunella1664 petre-salt1708 xyloidin1838 gun-cotton1846 pyroxyle1847 pyroxylin1847 pyroglycerin1850 xylidine1850 nitroglycerine1852 gun-sawdust1853 picrate1854 trinitroglycerin1864 nitroleum1866 trinitrin1866 dynamite1867 giant-powder1872 dualin1874 fulgurite1874 rendrock1874 glyoxilin1875 lithofracteur1875 trinitro-cellulose1875 white gunpowder1875 gelatin1878 cotton-powder1879 vigorite1879 blasting gelatine1881 Hercules powder1881 saxifragine1881 tonite1881 dynamogen1882 forcite1883 haloxylin1883 jelly powdera1884 nitro-gelatinea1884 panclastite1883 potentite1883 sebastinea1884 kolloxylin1884 hellhoffite1885 rackarock1885 securite1886 kinetite1887 roburite1887 carbo-dynamite1888 fortis1889 gelatine dynamite1889 gelignite1889 seranine1889 straw-dynamite1889 carbonite1890 amberite1891 nitro powder1892 Schnebelite1893 westfalite1894 thorite1899 soup1902 ammonal1903 cheddite1908 trinitrotoluene1908 Samsonite1909 tolite1909 trinitrotoluol1910 trotyl1910 glyceryl trinitrate1912 T.N.T.1915 nitro1916 amatol1918 cyclonite1923 hexogen1923 lox1923 pentaerythritol tetranitrate1923 hexite1931 aurantia1940 jelly1941 RDX1941 1874 C. L. Kalmbach U.S. Patent 153,086 1/2 I have invented a substance which I call fulgurite, which, while occupying much less space than dynamite..is a far stronger explosive. 1894 Daily News 22 Jan. 5/5 At Geneva a trial has been made in a quarry with the new explosive, ‘fulgurite’. 1921 T. H. Pope tr. E. Molinari Treat. Gen. & Industr. Org. Chem. I. 284 Fulgurite was prepared with 60 per cent. of nitroglycerine. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1823 |
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