Just to clear up the confusion as it’s an understandable and common question. I didn’t misspeak when talking about the trinitite colours. I agree It is the opposite of what you might expect from a chemistry perspective but geology is a much more complex mix of elements than discreet compounds like iron oxide. When iron is mixed with silicates in sand and other elements it can form green crystals (see olivine as an example). Likewise copper can form red minerals e.g cuprite. If you want to read more about it this paper goes into detailed analysis of the composition of red trinitite. The major takeaway was the discovery of a new icosahedral quasicrystal with the formula Si61Cu30Ca7Fe2 Red trinitite paper doi: 10.1073/pnas.2101350118
When nuclear testing was performed in Australia at Maralinga and Emu, very similar materials resulted. The same chemical consistency of resulting materials was recognised as near exact to what was at Trinity (sand/structure materials infusion) but with a few differences. As the test areas supported soils with high concentration of tin, iron ore, and copper, samples tested after the test revealed blended infusions of these metals. It was also noted that uranium ore was also present in tested samples as uranium is always concetrated within copper deposits. Though the test areas were decommissioned and subsequently rehabilitated, huge qaunties of this infusion of materials is exposed and easily accessible. As a resident of Woomera in South Australia, home to the worlds largest weapons testing facility, I have a substantial collection. There is no technical name I know of issued by the relevant Australian goverment science devisions restrictions on collection. Hope this is of some interest to you. 👍👍🇭🇲
Wow that’s super interesting. The only other named minerals I could find where hiroshimite, and Chernobylite although that’s obviously not from a nuclear explosion but solidified corium. I’m surprised there’s so little information about these Australian minerals. I guess tritinite is most famous because it was the first. Are your samples green like trinitite. If you have any photos of your collection I’d them I’d love to see them. There’s an email in my channel about section.
@@Curiosity_lab Thanks for your reply. According to a contact within the CSIRO minerals division, very little study on remaining material has been instigated. The materials embedded within the corium are uniquely different due to vast differences from materials used within the test bombs to environmental exposures. One of the main differences that no one can answer is why the materials resemble coloured glass with considerable impurities contained within. Very similar to the glass like material found in areas of volcanic activity but not chemically associated. The colours range from black, grey, yellows, lime green, red, blue and blended shades. Some samples are transparent, others dense enough that even laser will not penetrate and nearly all react under UV lighting .Some of my samples contain, apart from minerals exposed during the explosion, visible pieces of structure, such as a complete but distorted nut and bolts, wire, metal shrapnel and unknown materials. All are radioactive but just about background. Information on the test are still classified as 'Top Secret but enough information exists to tell the story. My parents were engineers from Ireland, one mechanical the other chemical, employed to design and develop launch systems for the military with nuclear possibilities. Will forward HD pix. 👍👍🇭🇲
Fascinating information. Thank you for sharing. I was a USAF C-130 crew chief for a few years, and spent a few days and nights at Woomera, but honestly had no idea of the weapon testing that had occurred there.
Wow, what a GREAT little video! The idea of using a model of the Trinity device to display the bit of rare ore is just brilliant, and SO appropriate. Again, Nice job, and thanks for sharing this video with the world!
Im in New Zealand and I have a piece of that picked up by a soldier at the time. I've had it checked, its only slightly higher radiation than background. Neat piece of history. Thats an excellent display, mine is just in a 1950's brass stuff box :)
I worked at Trinity Site back in the early 70's as a mobile radio technician. Trinity Site among many other locations was where range mission support was provided. We never placed any special value on it even though the creation of it was unique. The area where Trinitite could be found has been fenced to reduce exposure to decaying radiation and there were a few sources off range where it use to be sold.
I really like the gadget model display you created for your Trinitite sample - very cool idea. I purchased a few small chunks of Trinitite from the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History in Albuquerque New Mexico last year. It’s incredible to think that this substance was created in the the maelstrom of the first nuclear detonation and was present at a fairly close proximity to it. BTW the museum is really well done and has some interesting displays - definitely worth a visit if you’re ever in the area.
I have a pretty nice piece of Trinite that's a couple inches long, weighs 77 grams. It was illegally collected by a friend who was doing training in the area for the military. He saw a cool looking green rock and gave it to me. Sweet piece of history for sure
Hey man love the video! Super informative and interesting topic. One small (unasked for) recommendation for you, it sounds a lot better to not always end each phrase/sentence with an upward inflection (like you are asking a question). It’s okay in moderation but try to find some points in what you are saying where you can end the phrase/sentence with a bit of finality. All in love brother peace ✌️
When I was a kid you could buy a piece of Trinitite for a few dollars in the Edmund Scientific catalog, which was always a favorite of mine. I always wanted to buy some because even at grade school age I knew there would never be more of the stuff and hey, it was a piece of history. But I never got around to it. For the record, I'm well under 70, but closer to that age than I would prefer to be.
I can see why you’d think that, as iron oxide is reddish and copper salts are often green. But all the sources I found theorise the abundant green trinitite is due to iron, backed up by the fact that there was a lot more iron present due to the large steel structure. And there are several examples of green iron silicate minerals e.g Olivine.
Another great video. I'm glad UA-cam recommended this one to me after seeing the 82 elements video. Absolutely loved the display piece for the trinitite. I don't watch UA-cam very often, but I definitely subscribed :)
about 40 years ago, they used to give a one day tour of "ground zero." The group is allowed only a limited time out of the bus, then everyone returns to tour start point. It was only on July 16th. There were restrictions are how soon a person could return for another visit. I don't know of they host the Annual Tour at this point. I returned home after discharge.
"Sound added"... Spoiler warning: if you haven't seen the movie "Oppenheimer" already skip to the next reply. In the movie "Oppenheimer" the Trinity test was extensively covered. In the moments before the ignition the music is extremely intense, like the 180 bpm heartrate kind. When the bomb exploded the movie is dead silent at once. Like the anti-sound kind of silent. Because the observers (and thus the viewers of the movie) are at 10 miles from the blast it takes about 45 seconds for the sound to reach the observers. Very un-hollywood-esque to depict it in that true manner...
Yeah it’s great in Oppenheimer, glad they did it properly. just thought 45 seconds silent bomb footage before the boom would ruin the flow of this video
I also got some from united nuclear, then did my own gamma spec analysis of it. It’s got a pretty impressive mix of various isotopes still to this day after the instantaneous activation. As others have pointed out its pretty safe stuff, perhaps I wouldn't eat it but the activity is pretty low.
I also got a sample from United Nuclear, as well as a test card for my Geiger counter. The Trinitite sample is only slightly above background, much less radioactive than samples of uranium ore that I have. The nice thing about the United Nuclear sample is the certificate that comes with it. United Nuclear has a lot of very interesting products and instruments.
Not every piece was created at the trinity explosion. There are samples of that material from locations in northern Africa and some locations in the Middle East as well as in parts of what was the U.S.S.R..
I got a 2" X 2"X 2" sample of Tinatite still has hot counts with some wire infused in the matrix they told me that it was ground zero next to the wire sequencing triggers. I use aluminum foil like 30 layers to knock it down to safer.
@@philip5940 That's incredible, it makes a lot more sense now. If I'm following; the iron is green because the raw metal is mixed in without oxidization, and that's why it's green. Really cool stuff, thanks!
@imsvale my bad,earlier studies said the green was from wire etc but, according to a later investigation it was the other way around. I'll try to keep up to date in future.
Hmmm you can buy a sample at the Atomic Museum in Albuquerque .............and FYI its highly unlikely you would ever find a piece at the Trinity site even though it is only open to the public twice a year with a military escort.
In the late 1960's in the US there was a wealth of science companies that a teen could put handskills together with scientific curiosity to create and collect objects and design projects...rocketry...Estes and Centuri companies, Jaegers optical for getting the pieces to make and grind the lenses for a reflector telescope...and "Things of Science " a mail order company which would send something to you like fossils or lenses or parts to make a crystal radio, or magnets to learn about magnetism...or special geologic samples...one man-created sample of Trinitite which I still have after all these years from Oppenheimer's legacy...what a great time to be a kid interested in science...our applications were made with aur own hands
I have an old magazine from 1946 with a picture of actress Merle Oberon modelling ear rings and necklace of Trinitite. This was when the US government was trying to convince the public that atomic energy and atomic bombs were perfectly safe.
02:37 My understanding is that the original expectation was that the brief gamma double burst and thermal blast was basically it and little worry was given to the concepts of fallout and neutron activation (which causes more fallout from previously benign materials).
Yeah that’s my understanding, they knew it the detonation would give out a blast of radiation but assumed all the nuclear material would be used up I guess, or atleast it no significant amount would reach the ground and be imparted into it.
Trinitite can be found in more than one place. Though it's hard to get to it in places like Nakasaki or Hiroshima, and the higher air bursts caused a lot less of it to generate at those two locations, ANY nuclear test site will have some or a very similar material.
Cool video! 00:32 You could have left out the sound, as it took nearly 30 seconds to reach the camera. So this part of the explosion was for the onlookers completely silent. 😉
Thats pretty cool what you did. I have been to the Trinity site, but could not enter through the gates. Public access is limited to once a year. The model of the Bomb is xtra cool-well done. I will purchase the movie Oppenheimer once released to Blue Ray of course.
Yeah shame access is so limited. Someone else was saying it’s next open 21st October. But it’ll probably be hard to get in cos of all the extra people going cos of Oppenheimer
Definitely an issue, but if you buy from a trusted seller and see the glassy and smooth sides it’s probably legit. And if you have a Geiger counter that helps
Whoa there! I understood it is, Trinitite, also known as atomsite or Alamogordo glass, as the glassy residue left on the desert floor after the plutonium-based Trinity nuclear bomb test on *16 July 1945* at the testing ground near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Hundred Foot Tower the "bomb was suspended" from? I thought the bomb was inside the shed on top of the tower?
The only thing left is a nice base and a small plaque with a short detailing of what the model represents and it's crowning specimen "pièce de résistance" at the top! Nice model by the way. You've got skills.
Iron impurity in sand is also what gives regular soda glass a tiny bit of a green tinge to its color if you look threw something such as window glass from the edge or if more iron is added you get green bottle glass.
When I was there in 2019, all sorts of old guys were just picking trinitite up and putting it in their pockets like, "Who's going to stop me?" No one really cares.
There are a number of videos of individuals going to the Trinity site. There are pieces still in the sand, and a person is allowed to pick them up, but not possess them. Doing so is a crime even now nearly 80 years later..
The algorithm did good. This is an interesting bit of history and science, including your modeling skills. Quality work, got yourself a new subscriber. Lookong forward to your other videos! 💚✌️😎
Great video! Informative and well presented. That and I really like the host's 'Gadget/Trinitite' display stand - much nicer than a simple glass or plastic display box. I have several pieces of the rarer variety of this rare man-made mineral - red trinitite. While almost all trinitite has a greenish colour or tinge, red trinitite contains copper, which are remnants of the wires that stretched from the ground to the bomb. All of my Trinitite samples were obtained from a former NTS(Nevada Test Site) technician who obtained his from his father - a former Manhattan Project engineer. Keep up the great work, Curiosity Lab
Thanks, yeah the red stuff is pretty much impossible to find online these days, and prices of the green ones are probably gonna go up a decent amount with Oppenheimer driving interest.
Thanks your sharing. Your model honestly looks so awesome! I would be very proud of that creation. Well done. PS. I'm also Australian and would like to go out and find some samples here in SA
Just to clear up the confusion as it’s an understandable and common question. I didn’t misspeak when talking about the trinitite colours. I agree It is the opposite of what you might expect from a chemistry perspective but geology is a much more complex mix of elements than discreet compounds like iron oxide. When iron is mixed with silicates in sand and other elements it can form green crystals (see olivine as an example). Likewise copper can form red minerals e.g cuprite.
If you want to read more about it this paper goes into detailed analysis of the composition of red trinitite. The major takeaway was the discovery of a new icosahedral quasicrystal with the formula Si61Cu30Ca7Fe2
Red trinitite paper doi: 10.1073/pnas.2101350118
Looks to me like you want to poison yourself. This stuff is so toxic!
I was just about to comment on this, thank you for clarification.
It is even simpler, you don't need silica for a green iron oxide. It is first semester geology stuff. There is even a colour named "green iron oxid".
@@juliane__ green iron oxide is actually a mix of hydroxide, carbonate and other anions
I was midway through making a comment when I saw this...
When nuclear testing was performed in Australia at Maralinga and Emu, very similar materials resulted. The same chemical consistency of resulting materials was recognised as near exact to what was at Trinity (sand/structure materials infusion) but with a few differences. As the test areas supported soils with high concentration of tin, iron ore, and copper, samples tested after the test revealed blended infusions of these metals. It was also noted that uranium ore was also present in tested samples as uranium is always concetrated within copper deposits. Though the test areas were decommissioned and subsequently rehabilitated, huge qaunties of this infusion of materials is exposed and easily accessible. As a resident of Woomera in South Australia, home to the worlds largest weapons testing facility, I have a substantial collection. There is no technical name I know of issued by the relevant Australian goverment science devisions restrictions on collection. Hope this is of some interest to you. 👍👍🇭🇲
Wow that’s super interesting. The only other named minerals I could find where hiroshimite, and Chernobylite although that’s obviously not from a nuclear explosion but solidified corium. I’m surprised there’s so little information about these Australian minerals. I guess tritinite is most famous because it was the first. Are your samples green like trinitite. If you have any photos of your collection I’d them I’d love to see them. There’s an email in my channel about section.
@@Curiosity_lab Thanks for your reply. According to a contact within the CSIRO minerals division, very little study on remaining material has been instigated. The materials embedded within the corium are uniquely different due to vast differences from materials used within the test bombs to environmental exposures. One of the main differences that no one can answer is why the materials resemble coloured glass with considerable impurities contained within. Very similar to the glass like material found in areas of volcanic activity but not chemically associated. The colours range from black, grey, yellows, lime green, red, blue and blended shades. Some samples are transparent, others dense enough that even laser will not penetrate and nearly all react under UV lighting .Some of my samples contain, apart from minerals exposed during the explosion, visible pieces of structure, such as a complete but distorted nut and bolts, wire, metal shrapnel and unknown materials. All are radioactive but just about background. Information on the test are still classified as 'Top Secret but enough information exists to tell the story. My parents were engineers from Ireland, one mechanical the other chemical, employed to design and develop launch systems for the military with nuclear possibilities. Will forward HD pix. 👍👍🇭🇲
How about Maralingite for a name?
@@nitrousninja882 That is gold bro! I'll roll with that. Maralingite it is! 👍👍🇭🇲
Fascinating information. Thank you for sharing. I was a USAF C-130 crew chief for a few years, and spent a few days and nights at Woomera, but honestly had no idea of the weapon testing that had occurred there.
Wow, what a GREAT little video! The idea of using a model of the Trinity device to display the bit of rare ore is just brilliant, and SO appropriate. Again, Nice job, and thanks for sharing this video with the world!
Thanks!
Only it isn't "ore"
Just got recommended your channel.
Under 200 subs and putting out content of this quality? That’s madness.
New sub! Thank you for the video man!
Thank you so much, very kind. Quite a new channel but got big things planned. The algorithm gods have definitely taken notice of this video.
Science ed sheeran
Hairynerd Sheeran
One day, Trinitite may become quite common, and no one around to collect it.
Dark, but true
A really nice combination of mineralogy, history, and creativity. Thank you.
Im in New Zealand and I have a piece of that picked up by a soldier at the time. I've had it checked, its only slightly higher radiation than background. Neat piece of history. Thats an excellent display, mine is just in a 1950's brass stuff box :)
I worked at Trinity Site back in the early 70's as a mobile radio technician. Trinity Site among many other locations was where range mission support was provided. We never placed any special value on it even though the creation of it was unique. The area where Trinitite could be found has been fenced to reduce exposure to decaying radiation and there were a few sources off range where it use to be sold.
I really like the gadget model display you created for your Trinitite sample - very cool idea. I purchased a few small chunks of Trinitite from the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History in Albuquerque New Mexico last year. It’s incredible to think that this substance was created in the the maelstrom of the first nuclear detonation and was present at a fairly close proximity to it. BTW the museum is really well done and has some interesting displays - definitely worth a visit if you’re ever in the area.
I have a pretty nice piece of Trinite that's a couple inches long, weighs 77 grams. It was illegally collected by a friend who was doing training in the area for the military. He saw a cool looking green rock and gave it to me. Sweet piece of history for sure
sloppy joe's goons are coming for you now....
77 grams?? Holy canolis dude that's worth a LOT of money!!
Smart display, I didn't see that mount coming but I totally approve, great solution, cool concept, well done. Nice wee video
Thanks, Yeah I realise now I should have shown the whole display at the start of the video rather than just holding the tiny rock XD
Hey man love the video! Super informative and interesting topic. One small (unasked for) recommendation for you, it sounds a lot better to not always end each phrase/sentence with an upward inflection (like you are asking a question). It’s okay in moderation but try to find some points in what you are saying where you can end the phrase/sentence with a bit of finality. All in love brother peace ✌️
The tower was not completely evaporated - about half a meter remnant near ground surface was left standing.
How does Ed Sheeran know so much about Trinitite?
When I was a kid you could buy a piece of Trinitite for a few dollars in the Edmund Scientific catalog, which was always a favorite of mine. I always wanted to buy some because even at grade school age I knew there would never be more of the stuff and hey, it was a piece of history. But I never got around to it. For the record, I'm well under 70, but closer to that age than I would prefer to be.
It's... Illegal to collect, but you can buy it. They sell it once a year in very limited quantities on site when they open it for visitors.
What a fantastic job you did on your presentation and the model you made was pure genius. Thanks so much for sharing this with us. Jim
Thanks for the in-depth information. I never knew about such rocks existences... Thumbs Up!
I inherited a couple rather large pieces of trinitite "half golf ball size" and you gave me inspiration make a mount for them!! Thank You Sir.
I think you have it backwards - The red comes from iron, the green comes from copper.
I can see why you’d think that, as iron oxide is reddish and copper salts are often green. But all the sources I found theorise the abundant green trinitite is due to iron, backed up by the fact that there was a lot more iron present due to the large steel structure. And there are several examples of green iron silicate minerals e.g Olivine.
@@Curiosity_labI was going to ask the same question. Thanks for providing an answer!
I thought the same thing but, it's not actually corrosion, it's glass. Weird how it's backwards when it comes to colored glass.
Sorry Larry, perhaps you should go be a Karen-Troll Elsewhere!
I wonder how many people will put on their antique Trinitite jewelry when they go see Oppenheimer? 💚
Good point, the theaters are missing a trick if they haven’t been stockpiling trinitite to sell on the way out of the movie XD
@@Curiosity_lab Absolutely!
You mean for real? It was so long ago that they're probably up there already.
Man that video is so interesting, you deserve much more subscribers, great job !
Another great video. I'm glad UA-cam recommended this one to me after seeing the 82 elements video. Absolutely loved the display piece for the trinitite. I don't watch UA-cam very often, but I definitely subscribed :)
about 40 years ago, they used to give a one day tour of "ground zero." The group is allowed only a limited time out of the bus, then everyone returns to tour start point. It was only on July 16th. There were restrictions are how soon a person could return for another visit. I don't know of they host the Annual Tour at this point. I returned home after discharge.
Collecting the rock shouldn't be illegal the method of making it should be illegal.
"Sound added"... Spoiler warning: if you haven't seen the movie "Oppenheimer" already skip to the next reply.
In the movie "Oppenheimer" the Trinity test was extensively covered. In the moments before the ignition the music is extremely intense, like the 180 bpm heartrate kind. When the bomb exploded the movie is dead silent at once. Like the anti-sound kind of silent. Because the observers (and thus the viewers of the movie) are at 10 miles from the blast it takes about 45 seconds for the sound to reach the observers. Very un-hollywood-esque to depict it in that true manner...
Yeah it’s great in Oppenheimer, glad they did it properly. just thought 45 seconds silent bomb footage before the boom would ruin the flow of this video
I also got some from united nuclear, then did my own gamma spec analysis of it. It’s got a pretty impressive mix of various isotopes still to this day after the instantaneous activation. As others have pointed out its pretty safe stuff, perhaps I wouldn't eat it but the activity is pretty low.
Oh cool, I did see on their Trinitite page they had gamma spectroscopy analysis of one of samples
I also got a sample from United Nuclear, as well as a test card for my Geiger counter. The Trinitite sample is only slightly above background, much less radioactive than samples of uranium ore that I have. The nice thing about the United Nuclear sample is the certificate that comes with it. United Nuclear has a lot of very interesting products and instruments.
Don’t worry, we might be able to collect it everywhere soon! 💀
I have a piece of Trinitite. While you can't collect it you can buy a piece of history at the rock shop in Blanchard, New Mexico.
A cast, or carved, or sculpted mushroom cload with the rock at the base, use color's from sample to add micro lighting.
I worked at WSMR and flew to the Trinity site and was given a bagged piece of Trinitite from the pilot.
Not every piece was created at the trinity explosion. There are samples of that material from locations in northern Africa and some locations in the Middle East as well as in parts of what was the U.S.S.R..
Indeed. I had heard of the mysterious green glass from the Sahara before I ever heard of trinitite. Odd.
Your display is INCREDIBLE. Absolute banger there, top work!
So glad you like it.
Brilliant idea. Loved the video. Many thanks
I got a 2" X 2"X 2" sample of Tinatite still has hot counts with some wire infused in the matrix they told me that it was ground zero next to the wire sequencing triggers. I use aluminum foil like 30 layers to knock it down to safer.
Should have gave the paint a second coat
That model is crying out for an eerily glowing LED 😀
Good video. Wasn't expecting it to all "go Blue Peter" at the end. But nice model. :)
Actually, probably more "Why Don't You?".
Im surprised that the green parts of the mineral were from iron and the red parts came from copper, I would've expected the exact opposite.
I think it was, just think he's got it back to front
@@sarahardman5505 No, apparently it was correct as stated in the video. He confirmed in another comment (for me just below this one).
@@philip5940 That's incredible, it makes a lot more sense now. If I'm following; the iron is green because the raw metal is mixed in without oxidization, and that's why it's green. Really cool stuff, thanks!
@imsvale my bad,earlier studies said the green was from wire etc but, according to a later investigation it was the other way around. I'll try to keep up to date in future.
Hmmm you can buy a sample at the Atomic Museum in Albuquerque .............and FYI its highly unlikely you would ever find a piece at the Trinity site even though it is only open to the public twice a year with a military escort.
In the late 1960's in the US there was a wealth of science companies that a teen could put handskills together with scientific curiosity to create and collect objects and design projects...rocketry...Estes and Centuri companies, Jaegers optical for getting the pieces to make and grind the lenses for a reflector telescope...and "Things of Science " a mail order company which would send something to you like fossils or lenses or parts to make a crystal radio, or magnets to learn about magnetism...or special geologic samples...one man-created sample of Trinitite which I still have after all these years from Oppenheimer's legacy...what a great time to be a kid interested in science...our applications were made with aur own hands
Sl Ed sheeran is collecting rocks now.
You Painted it the Right Color, Military Green.
Your little model is "bang on," ...so to speak. Beautiful!
Egyptians have found similar mineral, fell from space, not as radioactive yet similar in color. The red was interesting, copper made red
It’s only illegal to pick it up at the Trinity site, the stuff that’s already out on the market. It’s completely legal.
That looks pretty cool. Personally I would have suspended the trinitite in the middle of clear epoxy mold of the bomb.
They could offer me Kryptonite, Roswellium or Unobtanium, but i am only longing for Trinitite!
Great video dude!
Your bomb model display is awesome!
Great display. You did good work on that. Liked the video. I had heard about trnitie before, but your video explained it well.
I have an old magazine from 1946 with a picture of actress Merle Oberon modelling ear rings and necklace of Trinitite. This was when the US government was trying to convince the public that atomic energy and atomic bombs were perfectly safe.
Dude , that display is fricking awesome ! Great video and thanks for the cool information !
02:37 My understanding is that the original expectation was that the brief gamma double burst and thermal blast was basically it and little worry was given to the concepts of fallout and neutron activation (which causes more fallout from previously benign materials).
Yeah that’s my understanding, they knew it the detonation would give out a blast of radiation but assumed all the nuclear material would be used up I guess, or atleast it no significant amount would reach the ground and be imparted into it.
why dont people ever use real nuke sounds... always this rocket explosion.
Really enjoyed this - Thanks. subscribed.
Trinitite can be found in more than one place.
Though it's hard to get to it in places like Nakasaki or Hiroshima, and the higher air bursts caused a lot less of it to generate at those two locations, ANY nuclear test site will have some or a very similar material.
I think I'll get my ex wife some earrings made with these radioactive rocks. Lol.
Cool video!
00:32 You could have left out the sound, as it took nearly 30 seconds to reach the camera. So this part of the explosion was for the onlookers completely silent. 😉
Thats pretty cool what you did. I have been to the Trinity site, but could not enter through the gates. Public access is limited to once a year. The model of the Bomb is xtra cool-well done. I will purchase the movie Oppenheimer once released to Blue Ray of course.
Yeah shame access is so limited. Someone else was saying it’s next open 21st October. But it’ll probably be hard to get in cos of all the extra people going cos of Oppenheimer
It’s actually opened twice a year
@@crxbb9506Beat me to it by 10 days...
A most enjoyable and educational video. Subbed, keep up the good work :)
Ed sheeran out here with a hobby
I just picked some up instead of 70 bucks for a tiny piece at the museum
Very nicely done. I think you made an appropriate display for your sample.
Grmpf- Now I want a piece. But me living on the other side of the world they could sell me painted concrete...
Definitely an issue, but if you buy from a trusted seller and see the glassy and smooth sides it’s probably legit. And if you have a Geiger counter that helps
When I was a little kid, I had a 1 cm sample of Trinitite glued to a piece of cardboard. It came with samples of other minerals.
This was a rad video!!! Learned a lot, interesting!
great video, super interesting and thorough
Great video. Cool Trinity model 👍
At first I was a bit cynical about the display but you really did a great job! Also, that's one hell of a cool shirt you're wearing man.
I came here to say exactly this!
Great video!! Thanks for making it
Whoa there! I understood it is, Trinitite, also known as atomsite or Alamogordo glass, as the glassy residue left on the desert floor after the plutonium-based Trinity nuclear bomb test on *16 July 1945* at the testing ground near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Hundred Foot Tower the "bomb was suspended" from? I thought the bomb was inside the shed on top of the tower?
Great information! Nice modeling job!👍
Not the first nuclear explosion, but the first man-made nuclear explosion. Nulcear explosions have been going on in stars from the beginning.
Yeah, interestingly I literally had that line in my script but I took it out because it interrupted the flow.
@@Curiosity_lab"in writing, sometimes you realize that not everything should be specified unless absolutely needed"
Technically.... no. Nuclear fusion is going on in stars, but supernova explosions are driven by gravitational collaps and not nuclear reactions.
Type 1a supernova are triggered by explosive nucleosynthesis
@@Curiosity_lab Duh... how could I possibly forget those?
Fascinating video, thanks for sharing 👍
why was this not created every time they tested the bombs?
How would that be the only trinitite? Why wouldn't other nuclear sites have it as well?
Interesting. You just got another subscriber!
Great video as always
This glassy rock appears wherever they have conducted above ground nuclear tests.
The only thing left is a nice base and a small plaque with a short detailing of what the model represents and it's crowning specimen "pièce de résistance" at the top!
Nice model by the way. You've got skills.
Great information after watching the Manhattan Project.
Iron impurity in sand is also what gives regular soda glass a tiny bit of a green tinge to its color if you look threw something such as window glass from the edge or if more iron is added you get green bottle glass.
And iron is the reason for the slight green color to coke bottles!
When I was there in 2019, all sorts of old guys were just picking trinitite up and putting it in their pockets like, "Who's going to stop me?" No one really cares.
This is very cool and very informative. Good job!
You have the similar conditions with lightning strikes to produce such minerals.
Scary part of this story.. I live less than 60 miles from the Trinity site... lol
love these little displays you make for these samples, but why do you superglue copper and brass wires together, why not just solder it together?
There are a number of videos of individuals going to the Trinity site. There are pieces still in the sand, and a person is allowed to pick them up, but not possess them. Doing so is a crime even now nearly 80 years later..
Your passion shines thru, nice interesting little vid, and the model was apt for displaying your sample
Very interesting. Nice job of explaining.
The algorithm did good. This is an interesting bit of history and science, including your modeling skills. Quality work, got yourself a new subscriber. Lookong forward to your other videos! 💚✌️😎
Great video! Informative and well presented. That and I really like the host's 'Gadget/Trinitite' display stand - much nicer than a simple glass or plastic display box. I have several pieces of the rarer variety of this rare man-made mineral - red trinitite. While almost all trinitite has a greenish colour or tinge, red trinitite contains copper, which are remnants of the wires that stretched from the ground to the bomb. All of my Trinitite samples were obtained from a former NTS(Nevada Test Site) technician who obtained his from his father - a former Manhattan Project engineer. Keep up the great work, Curiosity Lab
Thanks, yeah the red stuff is pretty much impossible to find online these days, and prices of the green ones are probably gonna go up a decent amount with Oppenheimer driving interest.
Yeah it is called vitrification when sand and earth is melted by extreme heat.
@0:30 first ever (man caused) nuclear explosion
Thanks your sharing. Your model honestly looks so awesome! I would be very proud of that creation. Well done.
PS. I'm also Australian and would like to go out and find some samples here in SA
Thanks, yeah some other commenters mentioned there being large amounts still present at maralinga
Have a bunch of this that my uncle collected before they made it illegal. Pretty neat part of history.
Fantastic job, video, and display. Thank you.
Thank you!
That's so cool. Please keep making videos.