(with air blast)
121fuel-air explosive — noun a device consisting of a container of fuel and two explosive charges; the first charge bursts open the fuel container at a predetermined height and spreads the fuel in a cloud that mixes with atmospheric oxygen; the second charge detonates… …
122Airbrasive — Air·bra·sive a(ə)r .brā siv, e(ə)r , ziv trademark used for an apparatus designed to abrade surfaces by means of a jet of gas carrying abrasive powder under pressure * * * Air·bra·sive (ārґbra siv) trademark for (a) an instrument for… …
123steel — steellike, adj. /steel/, n. 1. any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying …
124Effects of nuclear explosions — An American nuclear test. Nuclear weapons …
125metallurgy — metallurgic, metallurgical, adj. metallurgically, adv. metallurgist /met l err jist/ or, esp. Brit., /meuh tal euhr jist/, n. /met l err jee/ or, esp. Brit., /meuh tal euhr jee/, n. 1. the technique or science of working or heating metals so as… …
126iron processing — Introduction use of a smelting process to turn the ore into a form from which products can be fashioned. Included in this article also is a discussion of the mining of iron and of its preparation for smelting. Iron (Fe) is a… …
127Operation Crossroads — Coordinates: 11°36′N 165°30′E / 11.6°N 165.5°E / 11.6; 165.5 …
128Mushroom cloud — created by smoke billows Ascending cloud from Redoubt Vol …
