Scientists found the material “Impossible” left from the first nuclear bomb testing

Scientists have searched for quasicrystals that have what they are “impossible” in their non-recurring structures. They have found the quasicrystal they are looking for in the remnants of the world’s first test detonation from the nuclear bomb. The previously unknown structure is made of iron, silicon, copper, and calcium and is estimated to have been formed from desert sand fusion and evaporated copper cables.

The resulting quasicrystals are the first known as the combination of this element. Quasicrystals are formed using atomic building blocks that are not as found in ordinary crystals because they do not repeat patterns such as ordinary bricks. Scientists say that ordinary crystal structures look identical when shifted along a certain direction compared to quasicrystals with symmetry previously considered impossible.

One example is that some quasicrystals have a pentagonal symmetry; It seems the same if it’s rotated by one fifth of a full twist. In 1982, Daniel Shechtman’s scientist first discovered what symmetry called synthetic alloy. The material has a pentagonal symmetry when played in each of the various possible directions. Such symmetry will occur if the building block for material is ikosedral, the meaning has a regular form with 20 faces.

Many researchers questioned the findings because it was mathematically impossible to fill the room using only Ikosahedron. Shechtman’s work won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The new material scientists looked for those formed after the Trinity test in July 1945 in the range of New Mexico Alamogordo bombings. After the explosion, scientists found a large field of greenish glass material formed from desert sand liquidation dubbed Trinitite.

The plutonium bomb explodes on a 30-meter high tower equipped with many sensors and cables. Some Trinitite is formed after the explosion has a reddish inclusion which is a combination of natural ingredients with copper from the transmission line. Quasicrystals are often formed from elements that usually will not combine, direct researchers to investigate the red trinitit for quasicrystals. More than ten months, the researchers found small granules from what they were looking for that featured the same type of Icosahedral symmetry as Shechtman was found in 1982. The researchers believe that quasicrystals can be used for nuclear forensic science types with the possibility of revealing sites where nuclear tests are secret has occurred.