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The world had never seen so much destructive power. And 75 years later, we’re still finding surprises amid the debris of that first nuclear blast, the Trinity test.
A previously unknown “forbidden” quasicrystal was formed in the wake of the world’s first atomic bomb.
By Kit Chapman2021-05-17T19:02:00+01:00 Scientists have found what might be the oldest synthetic quasicrystal in the debris of the first-ever atomic bomb test almost 76 years ago. The report brings together two of the strangest phenomena in chemistry. On 16 July 1945, the Trinity test became the first nuclear detonation, carried out in the New Mexico desert as part of the Manhattan Project during the second world war. In the resulting explosion, particles of silicate-based desert sand were sucked up into the blast’s fireball, before raining down as a glassy mineral called trinitite. These f...
Posted January 22nd, 2021 for JAMSTEC 1. Overview A research group led by Dr. Naotaka Tomioka, Senior Researcher at the Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (KOCHI JAMSTEC) gave the mineral name “poirierite” to a high-pressure phase with the chemical composition of olivine that was found in shocked meteorites. Poirierite has now been officially approved as a new mineral species by the International Mineralogical Association. Olivine (peridot) is abundantly found not just in the Earth's upper mantle, but also ...