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Bookmark or Share- A Chunk of Trinitite Reminds Us of the Sheer, Devastating Power of the ...September 2019. Samples of trinitite from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Maggie West. The first atomic bomb ever exploded was a test device, insouciantly nicknamed the Gadget.
- Study Plucks Rare Quasicrystal From Wreckage of First Atomic Bomb TestSMART NEWS. New Research. Study Plucks Rare Quasicrystal From Wreckage of First Atomic Bomb Test. Researchers found the strange material inside a piece of red trinitite, a glass-like amalgam...
- 'Impossible' Crystal Was Forged in World's First Nuclear Bomb TestThe resulting fireball fused the tower and copper with the asphalt and desert sand below into green glass – a new mineral called trinitite. Decades later, scientists discovered a secret hidden in a piece of that trinitite – a rare form of matter known as a quasicrystal, once thought to be impossible.
- Trinitite - WikipediaTrinitite, also known as atomsite or Alamogordo glass, is the glassy residue left on the desert floor after the plutonium-based Trinity nuclear bomb test on July 16, 1945, near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
- Object of Intrigue: Glass Made by an Atomic Bomb(Photo: Shaddack on Wikipedia) Following four years of top-secret research and development, the scientists of the Manhattan Project were ready to test their first nuclear weapon, a plutonium bomb...
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