# Notable Inventions and Discoveries

# Violet Fulgurite Industrialization

[Violet fulgurite](https://birdsonguniverse.com/books/materials-and-forces/page/violet-fulgurite) was largely ignored as a financial resource for most of Birb history. However, around the 3rd century, scientists in [Chituto](https://birdsonguniverse.com/books/political-landscape-nations/page/chituto) found that it could be used as a powerful fuel source. About a century later, newer technologies allowed it to herald an industrial revolution around the world.   
  
The standard industrial process of violet fulgurite is as follows:   
Stage 1, the mining phase: once a deposit has been found (on the surface, underground, wherever), miners are sent in to extract the material, and ship it to a refinery.   
Stage 2, the refinery phase: violet fulgurite is then sent to a location (far away from population centers), and it is here that SCIENTIFIC PROCESSES turn them into usable crystals.   
Stage 3, the power plant phase: violet fulgurite crystals are expended (burned? used as a reagent? what kinds of byproducts are made)