World’s First Nuclear Blast Created Bizarre Crystals
When the US conducted the world’s first nuclear bomb test, many things happened all at once. Geopolitics changed forever, Robert Oppenheimer quoted his famous quote, and, oddly, an entirely new type of crystal was created. Scientists have called it quasicrystal. Here’s more from SlashGear:
Because of the extreme environments that produce these quasicrystals, they’re very rare to find on Earth — and the newly discovered one from the Trinity site, which was found in the glass-like trinitite caused by the explosion, is the oldest known human-made sample. At this point in time, it is unknown why quasicrystals form the way they do, but the crystal’s discovery will help uncover this mystery.
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