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A newfound quasicrystal formed in the first atomic bomb test
- Normille 5y ago>Trinitite takes its moniker from the nuclear test, named Trinity, in which the material was created in abundance (SN: 4/8/21). “You can still buy lots of it on eBay,” says geophysicist Terry Wallace, a coauthor of the study and emeritus director of Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. That sounds dangerous. Would it not be highly radioactive?