how did human first discover glass and the proper use for it?

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how did human first discover glass and the proper use for it?

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Lightning strikes in the desert produce glass, this is the only natural process that I know of. Flint napping is a process of taking brittle obsidian and chipping it into arrowheads or knives, so most likely something like this was used to make rudimentary tools.

Edit to add: volcanic glass is also a thing

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