Much of the work done at RAND was initially applied to the logic of nuclear warfare, but it has proved extremely useful in understanding another explosion-prone arena: Wall Street.
No word on if we'll actually see these wonderful batteries anytime soon, but I'm guessing we'll be stuck with the good old lap-scorching, explosion-prone lithium ion batteries for a while.
Now disappointed users in Australia, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan will be able to get refunds for their second faulty Galaxy Note – or trade them in for another, less explosion-prone Samsung device.
However, they seem to have noticed the recent popularity of 'hoverboards' and created their own version - we don't know too much about it now, but it certainly looks much more sturdy and less prone to explosion than most of the self-balancing scooters currently taking over the UK's high streets.
Ether is extremely volatile and has a low boiling point, two characteristics which make it prone to explosion.
He lived on primitive rigs prone to explosions, fires, storms and other disasters.
Dakad's counterpart, James O'Neill, could not have been more different, an "agitated, moody man prone to explosions of temper".
Nearly a decade has passed since their son, Philip, 12 years old and prone to explosions of temper, hanged himself in his bedroom after being punished for fighting during a baseball game.
My father, Anis Ahmed Rushdie, was a magical parent of young children, but he was prone to explosions, thunderous rages, bolts of emotional lightning, puffs of dragon smoke, and other menaces of the type also practiced by Oz, the Great and Powerful, the first Wizard De-luxe.
This approach overcomes the drawbacks of Markov chains such as the state-space explosion and the error-prone conversion procedure from dynamic fault tree.
Did its tendency to spread end with our reaction, or is it still breeding, prone to explosions caused by the spontaneous collision of sociological influences?
