Fulgurite – Three Fragments of Vitrified Lightning - Height: 67 mm - Width: 60 mm- 12 g
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Three fragments of fulgurite from the Moroccan desert, vitrified lightning with dimensions about 67 × 60 × 27 mm and a weight of 12 g.
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These three fragments of fulgurite, gathered in the sandy expanses of the Moroccan desert, represent three different moments of the same primordial force: the passage of lightning through silica-rich sand. Each piece preserves the memory of a unique event, occurring in a fraction of a second, when the temperature exceeded 30,000 °C, melting the grains and turning them into a glassy, rough and irregular structure. The three shapes, about 67 mm, 60 mm and 27 mm respectively, show different characteristics: an elongated element perforated by small cavities, a second more massive and nodular, and a fragment more compact that reveals inside the typical gray-light fusion of fulgurite. In all of them you can recognize traces of embedded sand, areas scorched by heat, and surfaces almost sculptural, molded by a force that no hand could replicate. Fulgurites are rare natural objects, born from the direct contact between sky and earth.
Seller's Story
The Mineral Art Gallery offers minerals, fossils, shells and natural elements.
Born in Italy in 2017, today she collaborates with international galleries and collectors, she is a direct importer of large minerals and naturalistic collectible elements; deals with the processing to insert them inside the living space. A section of the gallery was dedicated to the Wunderkammer, "chamber of wonders or cabinet of curiosities" in which Mirabilia elements are presented: naturalia and italiania, a union between "the present is the past".
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Translated by Google TranslateThese three fragments of fulgurite, gathered in the sandy expanses of the Moroccan desert, represent three different moments of the same primordial force: the passage of lightning through silica-rich sand. Each piece preserves the memory of a unique event, occurring in a fraction of a second, when the temperature exceeded 30,000 °C, melting the grains and turning them into a glassy, rough and irregular structure. The three shapes, about 67 mm, 60 mm and 27 mm respectively, show different characteristics: an elongated element perforated by small cavities, a second more massive and nodular, and a fragment more compact that reveals inside the typical gray-light fusion of fulgurite. In all of them you can recognize traces of embedded sand, areas scorched by heat, and surfaces almost sculptural, molded by a force that no hand could replicate. Fulgurites are rare natural objects, born from the direct contact between sky and earth.
Seller's Story
The Mineral Art Gallery offers minerals, fossils, shells and natural elements.
Born in Italy in 2017, today she collaborates with international galleries and collectors, she is a direct importer of large minerals and naturalistic collectible elements; deals with the processing to insert them inside the living space. A section of the gallery was dedicated to the Wunderkammer, "chamber of wonders or cabinet of curiosities" in which Mirabilia elements are presented: naturalia and italiania, a union between "the present is the past".
All lots are shipped via DHL Express and Fercam couriers, with insured parcel and tracking.
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Mineral form
Fulgurite – Three Fragments of Vitrified Lightning
Weight
12 g
Country of origin
Morocco
Height
67 mm
Width
60 mm
Depth
27 mm
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