Sentence examples for mass when detonated from inspiring English sources

This pit will compress symmetrically into a supercritical mass when detonated.

Conventional explosives ringed a mass of plutonium; when detonated, they pushed the plutonium mass together, bringing the 239Pu atoms close enough together that the neutrons they released would continuously strike and split other 239Pu atoms.[3].

The contraption was surrounded by high explosives, which, when detonated, would squeeze the entire assembly, suddenly increasing its density.

This is the fact that it can cause fatal woundings and killings when detonated near living beings.

A nuclear explosion even when detonated underground sends up a giant electromagnetic pulse that ripples through Earth's ionosphere.

However, they also shoot spikes out when detonated and can adhere to all terrain.

There were cases when the miner was killed when he detonated a mine he had placed himself.

For instance, it could have been a massive star 30 to 40 times the mass of the sun that destroyed itself when it detonated.

Ramin hit the ground when he detonated.

The bomber was in a car outside the fort when he detonated the explosives about 6 a.m.

When it detonated, he and his hut exploded.