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Dear wwh,
This story, "Ming Yellow," was the the Saturday Evening Post sixties years ago and you still remember it? It must have been one sockeroo of a story!
Best regards,
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Dear WW: I still regret the passing of the Saturday Evening Post. Every week there were four or more fabulous short stories, of which I remember part of plot. Also marvelous serials. I wish Yahoo had them archived.
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A natural pheonomenon of the making of glass is that of lightning's fulgurites. Flash of lightning! Directly into the desert sand! And the result may be the rooty network of glass called the fulgurite. Wow! No ash, no bone--just flash of lightning and sand. Wonder whether Corning could duplicate that effort and patent it?
Off to see my Sky King,
Orb~
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A long time ago I read about about the Soviet spy Kim Philby's father seeing large meteorite hit in sand in Arabian desert, making large area of melted glass. Can't find anythi;ng about it on Internet.
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When I took a radiation protection class as part of my Master's degree, the prof brought in an orange dish glazed with uranium as an ingredient in the colour. Again, what a great colour! (The pedagogic purpose was to try out different types of radiation detectors to determine what type of radiation was being emitted by the plate - since it was alpha radiation it doesn't even go through your skin, so it wasn't exactly dangerous for us in class It's only dangerous when it's inside your lungs or gut!) In the same lesson we checked out the radiation from a radium dial watch, and two different types of smoke detectors - one commercial, one for home use. It was a really neat class.
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I just started reading a wonderful new book by Oliver Sachs (author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for A Hat) called Uncle Tungsten. It's a memoir, and in his childhood he was keenly interested in chemistry, particularly the colors of various elements and alloys and the colors made when they reacted with each other -- fascinating stuff!
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Corning glass museum was US$11 to get in, and our budget wasn't up to it by then. It wasn't meant to be (that) derogatory a remark!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Has anyone ever seen a fulgurite?
Just wondering....
Lover of meterorites and lots of things that end in "ite,"
OrBite~
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As a matter of fact, my friend with the jewelry store has a pendant made out of fulgurite. It's an odd shade of green and wriggles. (well, it does if you squint your eyes just right!)
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i don't think i ever have (seen fulurite) but i love obsidien, natural glass.. my favorite is snow flake obsidian
i think obsidian is formed by volcanos-- certainly, it is almost always black.
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