Manhattan Project Shield Window Fragment - SOLD 133g hot Rough Ruby (Mozambique)

Rough Ruby (Mozambique)

but much larger

Above: Hans inspecting a large piece of Burmite after hours in the amber markets of Téngchōng

DIPLODOCUS (ANKLE)

Manhattan Project Shield Window Fragment - SOLD 133g hot Rough Ruby (Mozambique)This specimen is a 133 gram fragment of a leaded glass shield window installed in the T Plant (221 T) Plutonium Recovery Building, the first and largest of two production bismuth phosphate chemical separations plants used to extract plutonium from fuel rods irradiated in the Hanford Sites reactors. The Plutonium produced here was used in both the Trinity test on July 16, 1945, and in the "Fat Man" atomic bomb used over Nagasaki, Japan on August 9,