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What does sand do at these temperatures? Is it essentially molten glass?
the fires they had were probably not hot enough to melt sand into glass without some additives.
Instead, it's a fine particulate that can be heated way hotter than water, and because the grains are small enough they will disperse over a large area causing burns to people in a large area below
And it's much easier and cleaner to keep around. Hard to store water in a bag, after all