Trinitite, also known as atomsite or Alamogordo glass, is the glassy residue left on the desert floor after the plutonium-based Trinity nuclear bomb test...

Remnants of Jumbo, 2010 Trinitite Closeup of plaque on obelisk, 2018 Trinitite display table, 2018 Sign warning against removal of trinitite, 2018 People gather...

due to its high uranium content and contamination by fission products. Trinitite Elephant's foot United States. Joint Publications Research Service; United...

meant to emulate fordite, 2016 Handmade Fordite jewelry in Colorado, 2016 Trinitite Corium (nuclear reactor) Calthemite "These Gorgeous Stones Were Accidentally...

sand, forming hollow, branching rootlike structures called fulgurites. Trinitite is a glassy residue formed from the desert floor sand at the Trinity nuclear...

an energy equivalent of around 20 kilotons of TNT, leaving a crater of trinitite (radioactive glass) in the desert 250 feet (76 m) wide. The shock wave...

hazard due to the presence of fission products, mainly 137Cs. Chernobylite Trinitite Korneyev was interviewed by The New York Times reporter Henry Fountain...

radiative melting from meteoric large aerial bursts, making it analogous to trinitite created from sand exposed to the thermal radiation of a nuclear explosion...

Lechatelierite may also form artificially, a unique example being the trinitite produced by melting of quartz sand at the first nuclear bomb explosion...

from fission incidents. For example, one of the rare isotopes found in trinitite, and therefore with its absence likely signifying a fake sample of the...