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Pele's hair   Listen
noun
Pele's hair  n.  Glass threads or fibers formed by the wind from bits blown from frothy lava or from the tips of lava jets or from bits of liquid lava thrown into the air. It often collects in thick masses resembling tow.






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... and other minerals, with which it abounded, reflected the light in bright prismatic colours. In places it was quite transparent, and we could see beneath it the long streaks of a stringy kind of lava, like brown spun glass, called 'Pele's hair.' ...
— A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' • Annie Allnut Brassey



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