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I wonder how they figured that out
Did molten lava touch sand and then they were like 😳
Maybe tektites? Natural glass formed when
lightningmeteorites strikessand. I only remember the name because they share it with the jumpy spiders from ZeldaWhen lightning strikes sand it creates fulgerites.
Tektites are formed when meteorites strike.
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Oh look there's a whole Wikipedia page on it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_glass
Possibly an accidental byproduct of metal working
I thought you were talking about tektites for a second.
Ha, nice reference
Jules Verne wrote about this in one of his novels. The mysterious island, iirc.
It’s like minecraft.
If you spent your days cooking with fire, and your nights watching it and warming yourself, you'd definitely start tossing anything you could find into it just to see what would happen. People did this every day and night for eons.
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I think people just experimented a lot. Try enough random things, you're bound to come across cool chemistry every once in a while. If they figured out how to make really hot fire, that opens the path to "let's try making various things really hot to see what happens".
Of course, I know basically nothing about [pre]history or human development so I could be way off