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Originally Posted by Jan-Poo
btw the 10tons of gold certainly wouldn't vaporize in the explosion. Shouldn't the whole area around the island covered with gold shards?
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Actually, depending on how far it is from the bomb (and how
dispersed the bomb is - we're talking 600 cubic meters here if it's
maximally densely packed) two things could happen:
- Gold actually vaporises. That is, it turns into vapours of metallic gold and disperses in the air as nanoparticles with the smoke. Some surviving objects in the vicinity might actually become gilded.
- Gold bars, mostly as is but sometimes torn into smaller pieces, would fly in uncertain directions. Some of it would be embedded in the ground, most of it quite deep. What wouldn't would fly off into the sea (being very dense, gold would fly 2-10km, almost no air drag for the mass) and sink. Very few bars would land in accessible places on the island if any at all.