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Bizarre crystal found at world’s first nuclear blast site was made from wires – SlashGear
On July 16, 1945, the US conducted the world’s first nuclear bomb test, an event codenamed Trinity. The test took place a couple of hundred miles south of Los Alamos,…
On July 16, 1945, the US conducted the world’s first nuclear bomb test, an event codenamed Trinity. The test took place a couple of hundred miles south of Los Alamos, New Mexico, home of the iconic Los Alamos National Laboratory. That same lab has published a new study on a type of extreme rare crystal called a quasicrystal — one that was, in this case, formed by the extreme environment caused by the nuclear explosion.
Quasicrystals are named such because, unlike commonly found crystals that feature…
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