Editing Trinitite (section)

==Similar materials==
Occasionally, the name ''trinitite'' is broadly applied to all glassy residues of nuclear bomb testing, not just the Trinity test.<ref>{{cite book |title= Lost Oasis: In Search Of Paradise |author= Robert Twigger |date= 2010 |publisher= Hachette |isbn= 9780297863878 |chapter= Eight |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ZJkGSF8SW_kC&q=trinitite+asteroid&pg=PT85 |accessdate= 2014-03-18 }}</ref> Black vitreous fragments of fused sand that had been solidified by the heat of a nuclear explosion were created by French testing at the [[Reggane]] site in [[Algeria]].<ref>[http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1215_web_new.pdf Radiological Conditions at the Former French Nuclear Test Sites in Algeria: Preliminary Assessment and Recommendations] International Atomic Energy Agency, 2005</ref> Following the [[atomic bombing of Hiroshima]], it was discovered in 2016 that between 0.6% and 2.5% of sand on local beaches was fused glass spheres formed during the bombing. Like trinitite, the glass contains material from the local environment, including materials from buildings destroyed in the attack. The material has been called ''hiroshimaite''.<ref name="hiroshimaite">{{cite news |last=Carne |first=Nick |date=May 13, 2019 |title=Hiroshima's sands contain atomic bomb glass |url=https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/earth-sciences/hiroshima-sands-contain-atomic-bomb-glass/ |work=[[Cosmos Magazine]] |access-date=Mar 1, 2024}}</ref> Kharitonchiki (singular: kharitonchik, {{Langx|ru|link=no|харитончик}}) is an analog of trinitite found in [[Semipalatinsk Test Site]] in [[Kazakhstan]] at ground zeroes of Soviet atmospheric nuclear tests. The porous black material is named after one of the leading Russian nuclear weapons scientists, [[Yulii Khariton|Yulii Borisovich Khariton]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=2006-07-10|title=A Nuclear Family Vacation in Russia|language=en-US|work=Slate|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/dispatches/features/2006/a_nuclear_family_vacation_in_russia/russia_strikes_back.html|access-date=2011-05-13|issn=1091-2339}}</ref>[[File:Fulgurite-Adrar mauritanien (2).jpg|thumb|A fulgurite from the Mauritanian desert]]Trinitite, in common with several similar naturally occurring minerals, is a [[melt glass]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=Evidence for deposition of 10 million tonnes of impact spherules across four continents 12,800 y ago. |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |doi=10.1073/pnas.1301760110 |pmid=23690611 |vauthors=Wittke JH, Weaver JC, Bunch TE, Kennett JP, Kennett DJ, Moore AM, Hillman GC, Tankersley KB, Goodyear AC, Moore CR, Daniel IR Jr, Ray JH, Lopinot NH, Ferraro D, Israde-Alcántara I, Bischoff JL, DeCarli PS, Hermes RE, Kloosterman JB, Revay Z, Howard GA, Kimbel DR, Kletetschka G, Nabelek L, Lipo CP, Sakai S, West A, Firestone RB |date=2013 |pmc=3677428 |volume=110 |issue=23 |pages=E2088–97|bibcode=2013PNAS..110E2088W |doi-access=free }}</ref> While trinitite and materials of similar formation processes such as [[lavinite]] are anthropogenic, [[fulgurites]], found in many [[thunderstorm]]-prone regions and in [[deserts]], are naturally-formed, glassy materials and are generated by [[lightning]] striking sediments such as sand.<ref name="quasinature" /> [[Impactite]], a material similar to trinitite, can be formed by meteor impacts. The Moon's geology includes many rocks formed by one or more large impacts in which increasingly volatile elements are found in lower amounts the closer they are to the point of impact, similar to the distribution of volatile elements in trinitite.<ref name="drymoon" />