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A rare sequence of heating and cooling triggered the chain of chemical reactions that turn organic material into glass.

In a nutshell Scientists discovered a human brain from 79 CE Vesuvius eruption transformed into glass—the only known case of natural organic glass preservation in history. The brain vitrified at ...

Organic glass is rare in nature, and the paper notes that this is “the only such occurrence on Earth” of a brain becoming vitrified. The volcanic ash that buried Pompeii and the vicinity before some ...

In a paper published Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports, archaeologists and volcanologists show that the shards of ...

The extreme and rapid nature of Mount Vesuvius' pyroclastic flows vitrified the brain tissue of the unfortunate Roman soldier ...

A young man killed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE was likely overcome by a fast-moving cloud of gas at a temperature of more than 500°C in a process that transformed fragments of his brain ...

It is a unique case of the formation of vitrified organic material found in the skull of a young adult male, buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD and found lying in his bed in the Collegium ...

But after doing extensive testing on the black material, they were able to conclusively prove it was indeed vitrified tissue – the man's brain and parts of his spinal cord had turned into glass.