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A new alloy turned up in a grain of sand from Hiroshima Bay

boingboing.net • 08 Aug 2026, 16:45

A new alloy turned up in a grain of sand from Hiroshima Bay
Hiroshima blast alloy — Admiralty Chart No. 3472, Plans in Hiroshima Wan, United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, 1961, public domain (Wikimedia Commons)

A metal that has never been recorded before turned up in a grain of sand from Hiroshima Bay. Writing in Science Advances, Luca Bindi, Hans-Rudolf Wenk, Mario Wannier, and Teresa Salvatici report the discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast, sealed inside a glassy bead that formed during the airburst of 6 August 1945. — Read the rest

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