The city itself escaped largely unscarred, the glass blocks housing the capital’s banks continuing to gleam unshattered.

这座城市大部分保存完整，首都银行所在的玻璃街幸免于难，依旧闪闪发光。

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Glass blocks are sometimes substituted for ordinary bricks.

有时用玻璃砖代替普通的砖。

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Think of the salt layer as one of those glass blocks used to build bathroom walls.

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David Sanderson, a physicist at the Scottish universities' research and reactor centre, says that while this would need heavy investment (and a lot of workers), plutonium can be mixed with waste and vitrified into storable glass blocks, so making it unusable in bombs if any terrorists managed to steal some.

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