Definition of detonation
1 : the action or process of detonating
2 : rapid combustion in an internal combustion engine that results in knocking
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Examples of detonation in a Sentence
there was a series of detonations around the base of the condemned building, causing it to come crashing down in a matter of minutes
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Will David Lynch give us more extended scenes of sweeping at the road house, or another hour of experimental filmmaking involving the first atomic bomb detonation in 1945 New Mexico?
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I was rather alarmed last week when one of my colleagues posted an article on Facebook from BusinessInsider.com about what to do immediately after the detonation of a nuclear bomb.
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He was recently presented with new options, including military ones, for responding to a sixth nuclear detonation by the North or a test of a missile that could reach the United States.
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And the special high explosives fabricated by nuclear scientists to compress the plutonium cores in a deliberate detonation also have an unstable molecular structure.
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The ban on laptops in the cabin is based on the belief that a bomb in the cargo hold would need to be bigger than one in the cabin, and capable of remote detonation.
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The ban on laptops in the cabin is based on the belief that a bomb in the cargo hold would need to be bigger than one in the cabin, and capable of remote detonation.
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Detonations, fires don’t dent profit Similar problems arose at Sandia in New Mexico.
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The ministry says its forces confiscated three Kalashnikov rifles, night vision goggles, three suicide belts, three phones for remote detonation, a large amount of bullets and other technical tools for making bombs.
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First Known Use of detonation
1686
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