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Impactite vs Trinitite - What's the difference?

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Impactite is a see also of trinitite.


As nouns the difference between impactite and trinitite

is that impactite is any rock created or modified by the impact of a meteorite while trinitite is the glassy residue left on the desert floor after the nuclear bomb test of 1945 at alamogordo, new mexico, usa.

impactite

English

(wikipedia impactite)

Noun

  • Any rock created or modified by the impact of a meteorite.

    • trinitite

    English

    (wikipedia trinitite) (Trinitite)

    Noun

    (-)
  • The glassy residue left on the desert floor after the nuclear bomb test of 1945 at Alamogordo, New Mexico, USA.
  • by extension, any melt glasses left by atomic bombs

    • Synonyms

    (Trinity test site) * Alamogordo glass

    Hyponyms

    (nuclear melt glass) * trinitite (Trinity test melt glass) * Alamogordo glass (Trinity test melt glass) * atomsite (melt glasses from US nuclear bomb test sites) * kharitonchik (melt glasses from the Soviet nuke bomb Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan)

    Hypernyms

    (Trinity test site) * trinitite (melt glasses from nuclear explosions) * atomsite (melt glasses from US nuclear bomb test sites) (nuclear melt glass) * melt glass (minerals melted by exposure to extreme heat and vitrified)

    See also

    * impactite (metamorphic minerals caused by meteor heating of non-meteoritic materials) * impact glass (melt glasses caused by meteor heating of non-meteoritic materials) * fulgurite (melt glasses caused by lightning strikes) * fusion crust (metamorphic minerals on the surface of meteorites caused by atmospheric entry heating)