Posted on 04/19/2016 9:52:47 PM PDT by MtnClimber
5:30 A.M., Monday July 16th, 1945: The day dawned brighter than ever before over the New Mexico desert. But it was not the Sun's soothing rays that set the landscape alight; it was the radiant flash of the very first atomic bomb.
Trinity, the nuclear offspring of the Manhattan Project, detonated with the force of 21,000 tons of TNT. The accompanying fireball reached temperatures of 8,430 degrees Kelvin, hotter than the surface of the sun, and sent a mushroom cloud of smoke and debris soaring more than seven miles into the sky.
That day, every human on the planet was reborn into a nuclear era, one where mankind now held the power to end its existence. Also born that day was an otherworldly, greenish glass, a physical reminder of the cataclysmic explosion. Scientists dubbed the strange material trinitite.
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Corning sold the Pyrex trademark to some knockoff joint in China, and the new vendor’s glass is just glass. Original Pyrex is of course still available used, either online, or (much cheaper) at thrift stores, garage sales, estate sales, and the like.
U235-—700 million?
Once you have lost your patent rights and your brand mojo, even profitability as a cash cow disappears I suppose. I haven’t followed ceramics for years, so thanks for the observation.
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I have seen some of this material and it us interesting stuff.
Wow. Amazing stuff.
That stuff can stay where it is, thanks. It’s pretty, in an odd way, but I don’t need any more radiation!
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