World’s first nuclear blast created rare crystal never seen before

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When the first nuclear bomb exploded at the Trinity site in 1945, it turned the desert sand into a laboratory for impossible science. Decades later, the radioactive glass created is revealing new materials that normal chemistry can't explain.

Recently, researchers discovered an unknown calcium-copper-silicon clathrate in debris from the 1945 Trinity nuclear test. Found embedded in blast-formed trinitite glass, this cubic, cage-like crystal represents the first confirmed clathrate produced by a nuclear detonation.

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