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Detonation meaning
An explosion or sudden report made by the near-instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances. Specifically, combustion that spreads supersonically via shock compression. | An explosion or sudden report made by the near-instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances. Specifically, combustion that spreads supersonically via shock compression. | Any sudden explosion made by an exothermic process (whether chemical or not) that produces a supersonic shock wave.
Example sentences (20)
Detonation pressure data derived from measurements of shock waves transmitted into water by the detonation of cylindrical explosive charges of a standard size.
Hydrogen detonation parameters, such as critical detonation pressure and temperature, strongly depend on the container geometry.
The hydrodynamic theory of detonation used in predicting explosive phenomena does not include the diameter of the charge, and therefore a detonation velocity, for an imaginary charge of infinite diameter.
The procedure involves the detonation of a series of charges of different diameters until difficulty in detonation wave propagation is observed.
With this type of bomb, a thermonuclear detonation is triggered by the detonation of a fission type nuclear bomb contained within a material containing high concentrations of deuterium and tritium.
A team of experts from Istanbul have defused nine hand grenades found in the water on in the southern province of Isparta through a specialized detonation procedure.
But on Monday morning, smoke was rising again over Hässelby after a detonation in a terraced house at 6:28 a.m. triggered a large fire.
Damascus, SANA-the Ministry of the Interior said that an officer was martyred and two other personnel and three civilians were injured, as a result of the detonation of an explosive device in Daraa.
Selim was pure evil, but he died in an infamous bridge battle with the other clones due to his own venomous detonation.
The radioactive core, which used British and Canadian plutonium, was flown out later, and installed in the bomb on Plym very close to the scheduled detonation.
As the detonation wave travels around the roto, it continuously ignites new fuel-air mixtures.
But there was no detonation, he added.
Flash X-ray radiographs taken during the detonation experiments reveal the silicone buffer's ability to mitigate potential instabilities reliably and consistently.
From only several miles away, Mr Unthank saw the detonation of two hydrogen bombs with a combined yield of 320 Hiroshima bombs - he went on to lose all of his teeth and suffered gut problems and his wife had 13 late-term miscarriages.
Increased detonation damage by 5%.
MUNICH — The worst-case scenario of a nuclear weapon detonation in orbit by Russia would be catastrophic, the commander of Germany's military Space Command, Major General Michael Traut, said late Friday.
Surprisingly, the ordnance was wholesale sensitive to detonation today than it would have been when it was dropped.
The detonation of several thousand Hezbollah devices displayed a stunning capability for intelligence-gathering, likely Israel's — and underscored potential vulnerabilities in global supply chains, a former NSA chief said Wednesday.
This escalation followed Hezbollah’s barrage of rockets into Israel, which came after the detonation of thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies used by the group.
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