The atomic bombs that hit the infamous Japanese settlements of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the summer of 1945 will forever remain a terrible tragedy for everyone. The results of that attack affected not only the lives of people, the consequences did not bypass the ecology and even geology. When geologist Mario Vanier and other researchers came to the country to study the sandy shores closest to Hiroshima, they stumbled upon amazing particles that seemed to be made of glass. They were among the sand and represented a wide variety of shapes, but most often they were small balls.
Already in the laboratory, scientists found out that these formations were generated by the flame of that very atomic explosion. As a rule, such inclusions are found near volcanoes, because their creation requires a temperature of about two thousand degrees. As for Hiroshima, here glass balls were found tens of kilometers from the epicenter of the explosion.
The find was named Hiroshimite. In the course of a more detailed analysis of the contents of the balls, an eerie discovery was made. As it turned out, the objects of study consist of particles of rubber, metal, concrete, organic substances and others. In other words, everything that was near at the time of the impact shattered into tiny particles, which were forever glued together and preserved in the form of hiroshimites.
By the way, similar artifacts were also found near the old American nuclear test sites. They were dubbed Trinitites because the planet's first atomic bomb test was called Trinity.
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