detonation
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There's a researcher out there - I used him a great deal for this piece and I'm using him some more, he knows at least five of the people who were involved in the making of the bomb and its detonation .
the action of causing a bomb or explosive device to explode.
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Its high octane rating delivers strong engine performance by helping engines resist 'detonation' so they can run higher compression ratios.
The 'detonation' of a nuclear bomb over a target such as a populated city causes immense damage.
All he remembers is an earsplitting 'detonation' .
Seeking larger expansion ratios, gasoline engine experts are improving combustion chamber shapes and fuel delivery so higher compression ratios can be tolerated without 'detonation' .
By the end of the vignette, when the bombs are placed and we are waiting for 'detonation' , the tension is almost unbearable.
To run an engine on unleaded fuel it may be necessary to retard the initial timing to prevent 'detonation' and/or pre-ignition.
When challenged by police at Stockwell subway station, he had attempted to run, jumping a ticket barrier, before being overpowered and shot multiple times in the head in order to prevent the possible 'detonation' of a bomb.
Who knows what kind of impact it would have if atomic 'detonation' shockwave combined with lethal radiations combed through the world below them.
she was in a control building at the time of 'detonation'
This results in high pressure at the point of 'detonation' , leading to the acceleration of gas molecules away from the explosion, a so called blast wind, the leading edge of which is the shock front.
There's a researcher out there - I used him a great deal for this piece and I'm using him some more, he knows at least five of the people who were involved in the making of the bomb and its 'detonation' .
This material was used to blow up the Pan Am airplane over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1987, and can also be used as the explosive charge in the 'detonation' of a nuclear device.
If PRISM could move the spark, control when peak pressures occurred and prevent 'detonation' from progressing to pre-ignition, perhaps it could also handle lower-octane fuels.
I heard a muffled 'detonation' from the common, and immediately after a gust of firing.
Made in the 1952 'detonation' of the first thermonuclear bomb, the element fermium has since sat in a corner of the periodic table where few tools of chemistry reach.
The 'detonation' of each charge would result in an intense pressure wave, instantly shearing through the half-inch thick steel hull - like a gigantic cookie cutter.
The instantaneous destruction of all molecules in a sample is known as 'detonation' , and the rapid expansion of hot gases that results is what gives rise to the destructive blast.
natural gas's high resistance to 'detonation'
The 'detonation' of an atomic bomb above Hiroshima was the starting gun for modern Japan.
They somehow got a direct hit on one of our explosive dumps which exploded with a 'detonation' louder than anything I ever heard.
Its shells contain fuel-air explosives that on 'detonation' form a ball of fire, creating a powerful blast effect.
A 14-year-old boy, Husam Abdu, trying to cross the Hawarah checkpoint near Nablus, was found to be wearing a vest filled with explosives ready for 'detonation' .
The bomb's 'detonation' is spectacular, all billowing flames and smoke and debris, and not much in the way of bodies or limbs or bloody flecks, the kind of stuff that does tend to fly around under such circumstances.
The 'detonation' of an unexploded bomb discovered along with the German skeletons sends its fragments across the town, causing damage that is more symbolic than physical.
He mentions the atomic bomb 'detonation' in Japan, which seems later to have saved their lives by ending the war at last.
It contained 300 kg of explosive and the 'detonation' was twice as loud as that of the SS - 23 missile, according to Colonel Nikolai Vulkov, head of the demolition team.
Samizdata reminds us that on July 16, 1945, at Alamogordo, New Mexico, the Trinity test saw the Earth's first 'detonation' of a nuclear device.
The construction of a car bomb and its 'detonation' outside the Australian embassy gates required money, expertise and a large amount of planning.
He crouched next to the bomb - which displayed seven minutes until 'detonation' - and defused it.
The type of explosion - the shape of the 'detonation' - also makes hydrogen unsuitable as an alternative fuel for the conventional automobile.
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