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Rare quasicrystal found in Trinity test debris

May 19, 2021, 12:02PMNuclear News
Video still showing samples of red trinitite. (Source: University of Florence)

The world’s first atomic bomb test—code-named Trinity and conducted in New Mexico on July 16, 1945—had an unintended outcome that was only recently discovered.