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单词 fulgurite
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fulguriten.

Brit. /ˈfʌlɡjᵿrʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈfəlɡ(j)əˌraɪt/, /ˈfʊlɡ(j)əˌraɪt/
Forms: 1800s fulgorite, 1800s– fulgurite.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element; partly modelled on a German lexical item. Etymons: Latin fulgur , -ite suffix1.
Etymology: < classical Latin fulgur fulgur n. + -ite suffix1; in sense 1 after German Fulgurit (K. G. Fiedler 1817, in Ann. der Physik 55 153).In form fulgorite probably with remodelling after classical Latin fulgor fulgour n.
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.
2. A high explosive consisting of nitroglycerine absorbed in flour. Obsolete.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > explosive material > [noun] > other specific explosives
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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).
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