The phrase "a kind of explosion" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an event or phenomenon that resembles an explosion in some way, whether literal or metaphorical.
Example: "The sudden increase in energy during the reaction was a kind of explosion that surprised the scientists."
Alternatives: "a type of blast" or "a sort of detonation".
That, too, was a kind of explosion, intended to unleash its readers' sexual potential by counteracting their ignorance and shame.
As I was photographing, we did sometimes have a kind of explosion, as gas burst up through the well, but it did not ignite.
In what is surely the most famous dance in "Fame," the boys and girls pour out of New York's High School of the Performing Arts in a kind of explosion.
Visitors encounter the first room of the Phillips Collection exhibition "Angels, Demons, and Savages" as a kind of explosion, all the more intense for its tight containment in a small physical and chronological space.
"I know there was a group of images on paper, and one was a Little Eva figure," she recalled, "and one was kind of a pickaninny melon, bursting in half, and the other one was a girl figure, with exaggerated black features in her face, while the rest of her body was like a mass, a kind of explosion of black paper".
"It tends to provoke a kind of emotional explosion".
Jeannette writes in her foreword that "discovering Beckett... was for Dick an overwhelming event, a kind of intellectual explosion.
Until now, modern human behavior was widely assumed to have been a very late and abrupt development that seemed to have originated in a kind of "creative explosion" in Europe.
With a steady relaxation of western sanctions, as well as a public commitment by the US to restart negotiations between Israel and Syria over the occupied Golan Heights, rejection by Assad actually has the best chance of precipitating a kind of controlled explosion.
So many ideas of decency and fair-mindedness were brutalized during those three days, and so many feelings of anger and resentment were exposed, that it became almost a therapeutic necessity to invent a narrative that might give some meaning to events that were being experienced as a kind of psychic explosion.
