trinitite
Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word trinitite. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word trinitite, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say trinitite in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word trinitite you have here. The definition of the word trinitite will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition oftrinitite, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
English
Etymology
Noun
trinitite (usually uncountable, plural trinitites)
- The glassy residue left on the desert floor after the Trinity nuclear bomb test of 1945 at Alamogordo, New Mexico, USA.
- by extension, any melt glasses left by atomic bombs
Synonyms
(Trinity test site):
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)
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)
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)
Further reading
- David Barthelmy (1997–2025) “Trinitite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
- “trinitite”, in Mindat.org, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2025.