Still think similar effect must have occurred on 0.1KT pre-Trinity test shot too. Only smaller in scale and lot less radiationpic.twitter.com/a5HYHOqkq6
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Scorched and trinitite formation are probabaly a little different http://www3.nd.edu/~asimonet/PUBLICATIONS/Donohue_et_al_2015_JRNC_vertical_distributions.pdf …
I am not sure that the 100 ton test is hot enough. Nuke fireballs much hotter than even equivalent TNT reaction. Hence blinding whiteness.
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Agreed. The quest for the nuclear forensics crowd to make synthetic trinitite and other nuclear "debris" has been difficult.
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It is very hard to recreate all of the conditions. The paper I linked to has a nice description of the mixinghttps://twitter.com/nuclear94/status/886810067525410816 …
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Fascinating! Few questions: Does only nuclear create required heat? Would higher yield conv device? Napkin guess on min. yield required?
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Heat requirements discussed here: http://www.lanl.gov/science/weapons_journal/wj_pubs/11nwj2-05.pdf … — take 4 feet depth crater of dirt, subject to 8,430 K / 14,700º F for 3.1 s.
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