tektite

tektite
['tɛktʌɪt]
noun Geology a small black glassy object found in numbers over certain areas of the earth's surface, believed to have been formed as molten debris in meteorite impacts and scattered widely through the air.
Origin
early 20th cent.: coined in Ger. from Gk tēktos 'molten' + -ite1.

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