Scientists discovered an exciting new material in a deposit of fossilized lightning which was created during a thunderstorm in 2012.
During a summer thunderstorm in 2012, lightning struck a tree in New Port Richey, Florida. The strike released its energy into the tree and the soil and sand around it, creating fulgurite, also known as “fossilized lightning.” This fulgurite was later studied and found to contain a never-before-seen mineral.
Fulgurite can be a treasure trove of interesting minerals, mostly in part because of how the extreme energy from the lightning interacts with the minerals already found in their target. This petrified lightning is just one ofAnd when a University of South Florida team cracked open this fossilized lightning, they found a material they’d never seen before..
Finding such an unknown mineral hiding in fossilized lightning is exciting for scientists, and it no doubt will lead to more in-depth analysis of future fulgurite pieces that scientists get their hands on. The new material, they say, is similar to calcium phosphite but comes in a strange form compared to typical phosphite.
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