#330 detritus

detritus- a loose mass of stones, silt, worn away from rocks; an accumulation of accumulated material

C18 from French detritus, from Latin detritus a rubbing away

also detrition, detriment

If you collected all the detritus from a 25 megaton bomb after the explosion, you would only be missing one kilogram of mass, and an average sized city.

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