Giordano

Giordano and his colleagues describe an entirely unique, never-before-seen process that could indeed have resulted in glass being formed from a human brain.

“The ash cloud then dissipated and the brain could cool down quickly to ambient temperature, transforming into glass,” Giordano told Salon.

“Really do not think so,” Giordano wrote to Salon.

Giordano's research is not only relevant to colleagues like volcanologists, but also materials and forensics scientists, he said.

“By understanding the process of formation I think there is a great lesson also for the present,” Giordano said.