Detonations in a sentence

The detonations of multiple submunitions also started a fire that destroyed three cars.

The detonations galvanise the pedestrians below like the starter's gun to an Olympic sprinter.

There are multiple videos of the detonations out there already.

Under a massive daily bombardment, Israeli ground forces have overrun most of the enclave, smashing houses, public buildings and infrastructure with air raids, artillery fire and controlled detonations.

Dunno about corona virus, but they've found various spores and whatnot still alive at ground zero after nuclear detonations.

They are routinely disposed of using a counter charge placed next to the bomb to explode it, and there are an estimated 50 detonations a year.

Yet we are not ready for nuclear detonations and we never will be.

As close as she takes us to melodramatic detonations, though, never feels less than uncomfortably real.

As shown in the diagram at the right, for nuclear detonations over the continental United States, this U-shaped region is south of the detonation point.

Because the effect is produced by very high altitude nuclear detonations, it can produce damage to electronics over a very wide, even continental, geographical area.

But this only occurs within the severe blast radius for detonations below about 10 km altitude.

Explosions, detonations, and rumblings are often heard during meteorite falls, which can be caused by sonic booms as well as shock waves resulting from major fragmentation events.

However, in 1951 Teller and Ulam made a breakthrough, and invented a new design, proposed in a classified March 1951 paper, On Heterocatalytic Detonations I: Hydrodynamic Lenses and Radiation Mirrors, for a practical megaton-range H-bomb.

In the Starfish Prime nuclear test, most damage was to the satellites' solar panels while passing through radiation belts created by the explosion. citation For detonations within the atmosphere, the situation is more complex.

In type Ia white dwarf detonations, most of the energy is directed into heavy element synthesis and the kinetic energy of the ejecta.

Severe local fallout contamination can extend far beyond the blast and thermal effects, particularly in the case of high yield surface detonations.

The United States conducted 22 successful nuclear detonations as part of Operation Dominic here in 1962.

The World Service reported the lack of detonations after receiving a briefing on the matter from a Ministry of Defence official.

This test is known as a "calibration shot" to test if the island is fit for larger underground nuclear detonations.

Tricobalt devices The tricobalt warhead is a subspace weapon whose high-yield detonations can tear holes in subspace.