Everyone has class…I mean Glass!
It is really frustrating when a glass breaks! But (he he!) you have to understand that glass is essentially an artificially made solid from liquid!
Did you know there is a type of glass which is so rare because it is natural and made by an asteroid impact which generated hear to more than 1600 degrees!?
When it comes to glass, all you can do is be amazed! I have lost count of the number of glass articles I have broken! Clumsy and butter fingers are my nicknames!
Then again if it is not a mirror then it is not bad luck! At least that is what I say to comfort myself!
We all know glass is so delicate which is why we cannot get over this fact when it is made to be bullet proof or the floor of a tall building and you can see down in disbelief!
It is actually an amorphous solid—a state somewhere between those two states of matter.
Made from melting sand, soda ash, and limestone at a high enough temperature, glass is structurally a liquid; however, it behaves like a solid at an ambient temperature.
Know that though, in proper temperature glass is a liquid!
Then you have the most rare and precious glass! The Libyan desert glass!
Since it is rare it has now become a legend!
Libyan desert glass is the name given to fragments of canary-yellow glass found scattered over hundreds of kilometres, between giant shifting sand dunes.
Interest in Libyan desert glass goes back more than 3,000 years. Among items recovered from King Tut’s burial chamber is a gold and jewel-encrusted breastplate. In the centre sits a beautiful scarab beetle, carved from Libyan desert glass!
Now how the glass formed has long puzzled scientists.
Studies show the Libyan desert glass formed about 29 million years ago. The glass is nearly pure silica, which requires temperatures above 1,600°C to form, and that is hotter than any igneous rock on Earth!
Apparently 28,500,000 years ago to be precise, the skies above North Africa were lit up by an asteroid hurtling through the atmosphere. The intense and immediate heat of this event fused the sands of the desert into a yellow-green tektite known as Libyan desert glass. Due to the lack of any visible impact crater, the most likely source is a low-density airburst explosion leading to the fusion of silica-rich sands roughly 28,500,000 years ago. Since then, Libyan desert glass has caught the eye of everyone from ancient Egyptian pharaohs to the scientists of today. the ancient Egyptians called these formations the Rock of God.
Now it is a cosmic event but when there is a cosmic event which had actually melted the Earth, then it is an event to be remembered! Also events to be remembered are the ones in which you have the singing sensation Falguni Pathak!
Now drink some water from any non Libyan glass and sleep!
Shubh ratri!
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