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{{short description|Glassy mineral left in the dirt after the plutonium-based Trinity bomb test}}
[[File:Trinitite from Trinity Site.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Trinitite]]
'''Trinitite''', also known as '''atomsite''' or '''Alamogordo glass''',<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/trinitite-trinity-test-mineral-cultural-jewelry|title=The Long, Weird Half-Life of Trinitite|last=Giaimo|first=Cara|date=2017-06-30|work=Atlas Obscura|access-date=2017-07-08|language=en|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name="smithmag"/> is the glassy residue left on the desert floor after the [[plutonium]]-based [[Trinity test|Trinity]] [[nuclear testing|nuclear bomb test]] on July 16, 1945, near [[Alamogordo]], [[New Mexico]]. The glass is primarily composed of [[arkosic]] sand composed of [[quartz]] grains and [[feldspar]] (both [[microcline]] and smaller amount of [[plagioclase]] with small amount of [[calcite]], [[hornblende]] and [[augite]] in a [[Matrix_(geology)|matrix]] of sandy [[clay]])<ref>{{cite
It is usually a light green, although red trinitite was also found in one section of the blast site,<ref name="redux">G. Nelson Eby1, Norman Charnley, Duncan Pirrie, Robert Hermes, John Smoliga, and Gavyn Rollinson[http://www.helfordgeoscience.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Eby-et-al-2015.pdf Trinitite redux: Mineralogy and petrology] ''[[American Mineralogist]]'', Volume 100, pages 427–441, 2015</ref> and rare pieces of black trinitite also formed.<ref name="beauty">{{cite news |last=Williams |first=Katie |date=November 2, 2017 |title=The beauty created by the 'Destroyer of Worlds' |url=http://news.unm.edu/news/the-beauty-created-by-the-destroyer-of-worlds |work=The University of New Mexico Newsroom |location= |access-date=May 24, 2021}}</ref> It is mildly radioactive but safe to handle.<ref>Kolb, W. M., and Carlock, P. G. (1999). ''Trinitite: The Atomic Age Mineral''.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/nuclear-weapons/trinity/trinitite.html |title=Trinitite |work=ORAU Museum of Radiation and Radioactivity |publisher=Oak Ridge Associated Universities |access-date=October 7, 2021}}</ref><ref>''[http://www.hscott.net/analyzing-trinitite-a-radioactive-piece-of-nuclear-history/ Analyzing Trinitite]'', Hunter Scott.</ref>
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