A new alloy turned up in a grain of sand from Hiroshima Bay
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- The Hiroshima Bomb Created a Strange Alloy Scientists Had Never Seen Before VICE · 2d ago
- Scientists Found a Strange New Material Born in the Fireball of the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Popular Mechanics · 2d ago
- Previously unknown alloy found in Hiroshima blast debris The Hindu · 2d ago
- The Hiroshima Atomic Bombing Birthed a Strange, Never-Before-Seen Material, According to a New Study Smithsonian Magazine · 2d ago
- A new alloy turned up in a grain of sand from Hiroshima Bay Boing Boing · 2d ago broke it first
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