spherule

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Other indicators include materials formed only under extreme heat and pressure, including nanodiamonds, metallic spherules, and meltglass created when minerals melted and then rapidly cooled.

From Science Daily

Alongside previously reported spherules, carbon, meltglass, and rare minerals, they documented shocked quartz displaying a wide variety of crack patterns.

From Science Daily

They were looking for spherule particles, or tiny fragments of rock, left behind by impact.

From BBC

We recovered the materials from that meteor in the form of spherules — molten droplets from the surface of the object.

From Salon

But Desch says the speed at which an interstellar meteorite of this composition entered the atmosphere would burn everything up and there wouldn't be any spherules like these left.

From Salon