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Volcanic glass

A sand grain of volcanic glass under the petrographic microscope. Its amorphous nature makes it disappear in cross-polarized light (bottom frame). The scale box is in millimeters.

Volcanic glass is the amorphous (uncrystallized) product of rapidly cooling magma. Like all types of glass, it is a state of matter intermediate between the closely packed, highly ordered array of a crystal and the highly disordered array of liquid.[1] Volcanic glass may refer to the interstitial material, or matrix, in an aphanitic (fine-grained) volcanic rock, or to any of several types of vitreous igneous rocks.

  1. ^ Bates, Robert L.; Jackson, Julia A. (1984). "volcanic glass". Dictionary of Geological Terms (3rd ed.). American Geological Institute. ISBN 9780385181013. Retrieved 7 April 2022.

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