Crystals formed by an atomic explosion.

This material is one of the strangest and rarest elements, it is not the most expensive, because well, the most expensive in terms of elements would be antimatter, which can already be manufactured in very small quantities and with brutal containment measures, because obviously if an atom of antimatter comes into contact with another atom, any one, it does not matter which atom is of matter, both are automatically transformed into energy and of course, that could be catastrophic.

Antimatter is manufactured in very small quantities and it is very expensive, this must be the most expensive element on earth, this would be among the most expensive and certainly one of the rarest, it is an impossible crystal, it is how they have defined it, it is how they have described it, created in a nuclear explosion, it is the Ca-Cu-Si Clathrate, the Ca is for calcium, Cu is for copper and the Si is for silicon, but it also has some iron in the composition.

The crystal was formed during the Trinity test on July 16, 1945, the first nuclear detonation in history was in the New Mexico desert, the explosion vaporized the sand, the tower where the nuclear device was installed, which was composed of steel, but also had a lot of copper from cables, electronics, etc., and other materials, creating extreme conditions of temperature, pressure and this is the curious part. It also produced ultra-rapid cooling.

This produced the trinite. a molten glass and in the red variety rich in copper, since metallic droplets with rare phases have been found, this is one of the rarest crystals, it was not planned to do these things, all that material that was there in that tower was simply melted, but it was construction material, it was not planned at all to create special materials, it was only to build the tower and do the atomic test and that's it, but these strange things came out.

And this crystal is a clathrate with a very strange cubic structure, it is composed of about 100 atoms, the crystal itself in the form of cells, to give you an idea, as a reference for crystals, table salt only has two atoms, quartz from beach sand has three atoms, sugar, it is a little more complicated because it has carbon, it has 45 atoms.

This crystal from the Trinity explosion has 100 atoms and shows that it is a very complex structure, extremely rich in silicon, but with a precise mixture of calcium and copper that is enclosed in those cages, those structures, because they form 12-sided dodecahedra and tetracahedra, which are 14-sided figures.

And this is as if it were a very elaborate atomic building, with very sophisticated faces and those faces build a structure that encloses calcium and copper atoms inside, this architecture of cages is what makes this crystal unique and special, it is not a normal solid, it is a metamaterial, a cage metamaterial capable of enclosing other atoms, this gives it very interesting properties for technological development, for example, for the creation of superconductors of electricity, of energy, also for storage of gases, for computing, to develop quantum computers.

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