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Residue vs Trinitite - What's the difference?

residue | trinitite |

As nouns the difference between residue and trinitite

is that residue is whatever remains after something else has been removed while trinitite is the glassy residue left on the desert floor after the nuclear bomb test of 1945 at alamogordo, new mexico, usa.

residue

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Whatever remains after something else has been removed.
  • (chemistry) The substance that remains after evaporation, distillation, filtration or any similar process.
  • (legal) Whatever property or effects are left in an estate after payment of all debts, other charges and deduction of what is specifically bequeathed by the testator.
  • (mathematics) A form of complex number, proportional to the contour integral of a meromorphic function along a path enclosing one of its singularities.

    • Derived terms

    * nonresidue * quadratic residue * residual * residuary

    Related terms

    * residuum

    Anagrams

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    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)