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Let's Rock => Identifications of Materials => Topic started by: lapidaryrough on October 30, 2018, 06:55:35 PM

Title: Man-made from NV.
Post by: lapidaryrough on October 30, 2018, 06:55:35 PM

   The story i got was a nuke test site. The glass is from vent gas back to surface. from deep testing.

    Was their a name for the material?

  Jack
   

Title: Re: Man-made from NV.
Post by: lapidaryrough on October 30, 2018, 06:57:33 PM

refocus

Title: Re: Man-made from NV.
Post by: gemfeller on October 30, 2018, 07:11:21 PM

The name for the glass made by the first A-bomb test in NM was named Trinitite because the test was called Trinity.  Haven't heard of a name for glass made by the NV tests.

Title: Re: Man-made from NV.
Post by: VegasJames on October 30, 2018, 09:16:43 PM

Here is an article on the glass from the Nevada Test Site tests:

https://e-reports-ext.llnl.gov/pdf/329450.pdf