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World's first nuclear explosion forged an 'impossible' crystal that's like nothing else on Earth
At 5:29am on July 16, 1945, humanity entered a dangerous new era as the world's very first nuclear explosion blossomed over New Mexico. As the blast, known as the Trinity nuclear test, vaporised the ...
On 16 July 1945, in a remote part of the New Mexico desert, a team of researchers and military personnel witnessed the moment when humanity’s relationship with nature changed forever: when the energy ...
New blast crystal: Scientists discovered a unique calcium–copper–silicon clathrate in trinitite from the 1945 Trinity nuclear test — the first known clathrate formed by a nuclear explosion. Scientific ...
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