Sentence examples for detonation over from inspiring English sources

As a sailor, he had witnessed from a distance the detonation over Hiroshima.

Mr. Owens said the state agreed to detonation over other means, including chemical dissolution, because it satisfied several safety requirements that state health officials had said were crucial.

Security guards calmly approached the concert crowd, gathered to hear popular singer Gregor Meyle and his band, most of whom had failed to hear the noise of the detonation over the loud music, and began to evacuate them.

The stretches between points are long compared to the points themselves sudden detonations quickly over, sporadic fire on a quiet front.

The results of detonation velocity, over-pressure and impulse measurements were presented.

There were four detonations over the course of five hours; the last, occurring at 10 02 a.m. local time at Krakatoa on Monday, Aug. 27, 1883, was one of the biggest explosions in recorded history.

An experimental study of the Mach reflection of cellular detonations over the wedge is reported in this paper.

Some analysts have debated what such a launch would look like, with some translations saying a potential detonation would happen "over" the Pacific rather than "in" the ocean.

He added, "Had this conspiracy not been interrupted, a massive loss of life would almost certainly have resulted — and if the detonation was over land, the number of victims would have been even greater still".

In addition, as the detonation propagates over the porous wall, due to the mass divergence into the damping section, the frontal wave curvature increases.

In 1998, India abandoned decades of official ambiguity over its nuclear weapons program, exploding three nuclear devices in its first test detonations in over 23 years.