Quasicrystals and the birth of the atomic age

Luca Bindi; Paul J. Steinhardt

doi:10.1063/PT.3.5007

Quasicrystals and the birth of the atomic age

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The fi rst nuclear bomb explosion led to the formation of a novel form of matter, known as a quasicrystal, with an elemental composition that had never been seen before. At 05:29:45 Mountain War Time on 16 July 1945, a plutonium implosion device was detonated in New Mexico on the Alamogordo bombing range, about 330 km south of Los Alamos, and ushered in the atomic age.

Original language	English (US)
Pages	62-63
Number of pages	2
Volume	75
No	5
Specialist publication	Physics Today
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.5007
State	Published - May 1 2022

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