{"id":101288,"date":"2020-01-23T10:09:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T18:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/trinitite-trinitite"},"modified":"2020-01-23T10:09:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T18:09:47","slug":"trinitite-trinitite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/trinitite-trinitite","title":{"rendered":"Trinitite: Trinitite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/trinitite.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b>, also known as <b>atomsite<\/b> or <b>Alamogordo glass<\/b>,<sup id=\u201d cite_ref-2\u201d class=\u201d reference\u201d><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/#cite_note-2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup> is the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Glass\" title=\"Glass\">glassy<\/a> residue left on the desert floor after the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plutonium\" title=\"Plutonium\">plutonium<\/a>-based <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trinity_test\" class=\"\" title=\"Trinity test\">Trinity<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nuclear_testing\" class=\"\" title=\"Nuclear testing\">nuclear bomb test<\/a> on July 16, 1945, near <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alamogordo\" class=\"\" title=\"Alamogordo\">Alamogordo<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Mexico\" title=\"New Mexico\">New Mexico<\/a>. The glass is primarily composed of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arkosic\" class=\"\" title=\"Arkosic\">arkosic<\/a> sand composed of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quartz\" title=\"Quartz\">quartz<\/a> grains and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Feldspar\" title=\"Feldspar\">feldspar<\/a> (both <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microcline\" title=\"Microcline\">microcline<\/a> and smaller amount of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plagioclase\" title=\"Plagioclase\">plagioclase<\/a> with small amount of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Calcite\" title=\"Calcite\">calcite<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hornblende\" title=\"Hornblende\">hornblende<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Augite\" title=\"Augite\">augite<\/a> in a matrix of sandy <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clay\" title=\"Clay\">clay<\/a>)<sup id=\u201d cite_ref-optprop_3-0\u201d class=\u201d reference\u201d><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/#cite_note-optprop-3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup> that was melted by the atomic blast. It is usually a light green, although color can vary. It is mildly radioactive but safe to handle.<sup id=\u201d cite_ref-4\u201d class=\u201d reference\u201d><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/#cite_note-4\">[4]<\/a><\/sup><sup id=\u201d cite_ref-5\u201d class=\u201d reference\u201d><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/#cite_note-5\">[5]<\/a><\/sup><sup id=\u201d cite_ref-6\u201d class=\u201d reference\u201d><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/#cite_note-6\">[6]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>In the late 1940s and early 1950s, samples were gathered and sold to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mineral_collector\" class=\"\" title=\"Mineral collector\">mineral collectors<\/a> as a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Novelty\" title=\"Novelty\">novelty<\/a>. Traces of the material may still be found at the Trinity Site as of 2019, although most of it was bulldozed and buried by the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Atomic_Energy_Commission\" title=\"United States Atomic Energy Commission\">United States Atomic Energy Commission<\/a> in 1953.<sup id=\u201d cite_ref-7\u201d class=\u201d reference\u201d><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/#cite_note-7\">[7]<\/a><\/sup> It is now illegal to take the remaining material from the site; however, material that was taken prior to this prohibition is still in the hands of collectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>, also known as atomsite or Alamogordo glass,[2] is the glassy residue left on the desert floor after the plutonium-based Trinity nuclear bomb test on July 16, 1945, near Alamogordo, New Mexico. The glass is primarily composed of arkosic sand composed of quartz grains and feldspar (both microcline and smaller amount of plagioclase with small [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}