TRINITITE Specimen

PRODUCT OF THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB EXPLOSION TRINITY SITE, TULAROSA BASIN, ALAMOGORDO, SOCORRO COUNTY, NEW MEXICO, U.S.A. Mounted In A Riker Mount Display Case With Illustrated Information Card. Representative 1/4€³ specimen. 3€³ x 2.5€³ Display Case. This material was, of course, collected many years ago. A copy of a one page report, taken from Minerals of New Mexico, S. A. Northrop (1959) is available covering Trinitite, and a copy of this information will be supplied with each sample ordered, if requested. Each specimen has the light olive green, glass-like, fused top surface, with interesting rounded form. The bottom of each piece exhibits the rough texture of the sandy desert surface, which remained untouched by the blast. While the Trinitite was highly radioactive in 1945 when it was formed, more than fifty years have passed and at the present time, radioactivity is virtually zero.