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Definition of Explosion

Explosion The act of exploding; detonation; a chemical action which causes the sudden formation of a great volume of expanded gas; as, the explosion of gunpowder, of fire damp,etc. A bursting with violence and loud noise, because of internal pressure; as, the explosion of a gun, a bomb, a steam boiler, etc. A violent outburst of feeling, manifested by excited language, action, etc.; as, an explosion of wrath. Related Definitions: Act, Action, An, And, As, Because, Boiler, Bomb, Bursting, By, Chemical, Damp, Detonation, Excited, Expanded, Exploding, Explosion, Feeling, Fire, Formation, Gas, Great, Gun, Gunpowder, Internal, Language, Loud, Manifested, Noise, Of, Outburst, Pressure, Steam, Sudden, The, Violence, Violent, Volume, Which, With, Wrath

Explosion Quotations So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do. Sally Ride Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public. Jurgen Habermas We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem. Yasser Arafat We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space. Richard Dawkins The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor. Alvin Toffler

Explosion Translations explosion in Afrikaans is ontploffing explosion in Dutch is uitbarsting, ontploffing, explosie explosion in French is explosion explosion in Italian is esplosione explosion in Norwegian is eksplosjon explosion in Swedish is krevad

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