hydrogen weapon
1Hydrogen cyanide — IUPAC name …
2Hydrogen economy — The hydrogen economy is a proposed system of delivering energy using hydrogen. The term hydrogen economy was coined by John Bockris during a talk he gave in 1970 at General Motors (GM) Technical Center.[1] Hydrogen advocates promote hydrogen as… …
3hydrogen bomb — noun a nuclear weapon that releases atomic energy by union of light (hydrogen) nuclei at high temperatures to form helium • Syn: ↑H bomb, ↑fusion bomb, ↑thermonuclear bomb • Hypernyms: ↑nuclear weapon, ↑atomic weapon, ↑bomb …
4hydrogen bomb — Nuclear weapon Nu cle*ar wea pon, n. A weapon of great explosive power, such as an {atomic bomb} or a {hydrogen bomb}, which depends for most of its explosive power on the release of energy from within atomic nuclei by a nuclear reaction. A… …
5hydrogen bomb — H bomb H bomb ([=a]ch b[o^]mb ) n. The {hydrogen bomb}, a thermonuclear weapon that releases atomic energy by union of hydrogen nuclei at high temperatures to form helium. The force of its explosion may range from one to hundreds of megatons of… …
6hydrogen bomb — a bomb, more powerful than an atomic bomb, that derives its explosive energy from the thermonuclear fusion reaction of hydrogen isotopes. Also called H bomb, fusion bomb, thermonuclear bomb. [1945 50] * * * or H bomb or thermonuclear bomb Weapon… …
7hydrogen bomb — termobranduolinis ginklas statusas T sritis Gynyba apibrėžtis Ginklas, kuriame naudojama labai aukšta temperatūra lengviesiems branduoliams, pvz., vandenilio izotopų (t. y., deuterio ir tričio), sujungti kartu išskiriant energiją. Reikiama aukšta …
8hydrogen bomb — See thermonuclear weapon …
9hydrogen bomb — enormously destructive nuclear weapon based on the sudden release of atomic energy …
10Nuclear weapon design — The first nuclear weapons, though large, cumbersome and inefficient, provided the basic design building blocks of all future weapons. Here the Gadget device is prepared for the first nuclear test: Trinity. Nuclear weapon designs are physical,… …
