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The sands of the Libyan desert extend, of course, in the Libya, but also – in Egypt and Sudan, but in general – this is part of a huge Sahara Desert. And in this Libyan sand wasteland comes across amazing mineral – glass stones, the origin of which attributed to cosmic forces.
Scientists estimate approximately 28 million years back in this place a huge meteorite fell, which, exploding, melted the desert sand, turning part of the quartz into these unique glass formations that are 98 percent dioxide silicon and the remainder in them is cosmic dust. Exactly this clean glass on our planet, because artificially (at modern technology) it is simply impossible to get such a glass high percent silica.
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The proposed theory is quite convincing, if not for one “but”: in the Sahara Desert did not exist at that time, and, therefore, there was no sand – material for the formation of Libyan glass. Also in this the place (where these mysterious glass pieces are found) should remain huge crater formed from a collision of a meteorite with the surface of the earth. But he is not. There is a third, no less convincing argument debunking this “scientific theory”: Libyan glass is found on a vast territory, i.e. it turns out that the products of the “collision with the meteor” scattered into hundreds of kilometers. But what should be the explosion at the same time? AND where are the traces of him again? They are not here…
There is another theory according to which all these mysterious glass – a product of powerful lightning. Something like fulgurites – melted from lightning surfaces of any mountain rocks. But fulgurites are a rather rare phenomenon, and Libyan large quantities of glass, as scientists have established, formed at a time – how many lightnings were needed for this and almost one-time …
This mineral is actually very much here, because the Libyan glass has been widely used since ancient times: from it primitive people made arrowheads, knives, and naturally at all times – numerous decorations. Even in the tomb Tutankhamun discovered a necklace on which a scarab beetle made of this translucent yellow-green mineral. AND Despite this, in the desert, they still find these amazing glass, and their price is not so great – about two thousand rubles per stone in 2 centimeters in diameter.
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Not so long ago, scientists suggested that Libyan glass Are fragments of a comet, like the Tunguska one (there is such a version that and not a meteorite, but a comet flew over the Tunguska taiga, since there are practically no traces of this cosmic body) with the only difference that the Russian comet, apparently, consisted mainly from ice, but the Libyan brought to Earth numerous fragments of pure glass, scattering them in a huge quantity in the vast territory now deserted.
The fragments of a space mineral in the Libyan desert are actually are infinite if people could not choose them for hundreds of thousands of years. True, the recent government decree is surprising at the same time. Egypt on the ban on the export of these space glass from the country. Is his reserves depleted? Or is it something completely otherwise? ..
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