{"id":162288,"date":"2023-04-16T16:23:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T21:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/lightning-bolt-deposits-a-strange-mineral-never-seen-on-earth-before"},"modified":"2023-04-16T16:23:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T21:23:40","slug":"lightning-bolt-deposits-a-strange-mineral-never-seen-on-earth-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/lightning-bolt-deposits-a-strange-mineral-never-seen-on-earth-before","title":{"rendered":"Lightning Bolt Deposits a Strange Mineral Never Seen on Earth Before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lightning-bolt-deposits-a-strange-mineral-never-seen-on-earth-before3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/lightning\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">lightning<\/a> bolt that struck a tree on Florida\u2019s west coast has produced a fascinating type of phosphorus material we haven\u2019t seen on Earth before: one that could represent a whole new mineral group, bridging the gap between space minerals and minerals found on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The material, which is a close match for calcium phosphite (CaHPO<sub>3<\/sub>), was found trapped inside a fulgurite \u2013 a \u201cmetal glob\u201d formed by the reaction of the ultra-hot lightning bolt with the sand around the roots of its target.<\/p>\n<p>These \u2018fossilized lightning\u2019 fulgurites often occur when lightning strikes certain types of sand, silica, and rock. What\u2019s much less common is to find something so unique hidden inside one of these structures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lightning bolt that struck a tree on Florida\u2019s west coast has produced a fascinating type of phosphorus material we haven\u2019t seen on Earth before: one that could represent a whole new mineral group, bridging the gap between space minerals and minerals found on Earth. The material, which is a close match for calcium phosphite [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}