Sentence examples for detonation force from inspiring English sources

As it turned out, the detonation force was equal to about twenty thousand tons of TNT — four times larger than the expected maximum.

As it turned out, the detonation force was equal to about twenty thousand tons of TNT four times larger than the expected maximum.

He was reportedly outside at the time and tossed to the ground by the detonation's force.

He was briefed about the detonation aboard Air Force One en route to Washington, and spoke again with Park and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in separate calls from the presidential aircraft.

In such systems helium burns in a detonation wave with such force that a detonation is also ignited in the interior of the dwarf.

A senior Bush administration official said he had learned through Asian contacts that the North Koreans had expected the detonation to have a force of about four kilotons.

The eyewitness was blown off his feet by the force of the detonation, which burst his eardrum.

The long party scene, set at the Istanbul Hilton, is a tour de force; a controlled detonation of explosive emotional materials that have been expertly laid and primed during the foregoing chapters.

The attack began with the detonation of a bomb, which forced the vehicles to stop, and continued with a barrage of automatic-weapons fire, Mr. Bajpai said.

Exposure of this gray powder to ambient atmosphere initiates a violent detonation (or rapid oxidation) having sufficient force to pulverize glass vial containers.

Finally, gas flow through porous media is implicated as the driving force behind the deflagration to detonation transition.