Unexpectedly: There is a connection between the explosion of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and the birth of the solar system

It is very difficult for scientists to study the conditions that existed in the gas cloud more than 4.5 billion years ago, when the Sun and the planets of the solar system emerged. Scientists obtain most of the information on this subject by examining old meteorites. But the authors of a new study published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters found that the tiny glass spheres formed during the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945 were different from most materials created on Earth. Live Science writes that the environment in which these spheres formed bears some resemblance to the environment of the gas nebula from which the Sun and the planets of the solar system are born.

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On August 6, 1945, an American B-29 Superfortress bomber dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. As a result of the explosion of the bomb, approximately 500 meters above the city, a fireball with a diameter of 260 meters was formed with a temperature of over 6 thousand degrees Celsius. The atomic explosion destroyed almost all of Hiroshima and killed tens of thousands of local residents.

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During the explosion, glass, concrete, metal, everything that made up the buildings in the city, evaporated and mixed with air and water in the superheated plasma created by the explosion of the atomic bomb.

As the fireball cooled rapidly, these materials formed droplets that fell to the surface as radioactive fallout. As a result, small glass spheres called Hiroshimaita were discovered on the surface.

The study authors carefully examined 20 samples of this material to better understand how glass spheres form and what their isotopic composition is. The research showed that the isotope ratios of silicon and oxygen in the glass pieces were very different from those in other materials commonly found on Earth. Scientists have only found similar glassy fragments with similar isotope ratios in meteorites such as chondrites. These meteorite fragments are believed to have formed in the cloud of hot gas from which the Sun and planets emerged 4.5 billion years ago.

The chemical elements and isotopes in chondrites are the same as those present at the beginning of the solar system; This means they can provide information about the chemical reactions occurring in the gas cloud. Unique chemical reactions in the solar nebula are thought to be responsible for the unique set of isotopes in the chondrites.

The authors of the new study believe that the same chemical reactions occurred during the atomic bomb explosion on Hiroshima and during the formation of the solar system. According to scientists, the atomic explosion did not create the same conditions as at the beginning of the solar system. Although there is high temperature and almost the same chemical elements in both places. The atomic bomb exploded on Earth, not in space, and the explosion took place at much higher pressure.

But scientists say both events, such as the explosion of the atomic bomb and the creation of the solar system, may have enough in common to make the same chemical reactions possible.

The study authors are conducting experiments in the laboratory to try to recreate these conditions and further test their theory. Scientists believe that studying radioactive fallout is a good way to study conditions in the early Saline System that are not directly accessible.

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