Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An olive green, glasslike substance formed from the sand melted by the heat that was generated by the first nuclear blast at the New Mexico test site in 1945.
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- noun The
glassy residue left on thedesert floor after the Trinitynuclear bomb test of 1945.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Though it's not harmful (all the radiation is long gone), eBay won't let people sell it if they call it trinitite, but it goes through the filters if sellers call it "Atomite."
I hope this doesn't mean I've become a meme junkie... frankwu 2007
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Even the album cover, a photo of a sculpture by Dario Robleto, has been singled out; the sculpture of a decimated cassette tape is made of bones, bone dust and trinitite, which is glass produced during an atomic test explosion in 1945.
unknown title 2009
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Some of the scientists took their wives and children on a tour of the area near ground zero, particularly to view the green glass called "trinitite," which covered the crater floor.
Project Trinity 1945-1946 Carl R. Maag
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"trinitite", the glassy green radioactive mineral formed by the blast.
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"trinitite", the glassy green radioactive mineral formed by the blast.
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"trinitite", the glassy green radioactive mineral formed by the blast.
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Plus, we could make a good dent in the federal debt just by selling the trinitite to rich Saudis.
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Yes, that's trinitite, the mineral created in 1945 in Alamogordo, New Mexico, when scientists exploded the world's first atomic bomb.
The Whole (New) World in Her Hand Roger Sutton 2007
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I met Ellen and her trinitite at a party graciously thrown for her by publisher Viking/Penguin in New York this past Monday.
The Whole (New) World in Her Hand Roger Sutton 2007
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We talked about trinitite (which, if you read my earlier post, is the fused sand produced by the test atomic blast as Trinity).
I love everybody... frankwu 2007
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