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a region of high pressure travelling through a gas at a high velocity
the explosion created a shock wave
How To Use blast wave In A Sentence
- This thermobaric warhead creates a blast wave equivalent to that produced by the detonation of 2kg of TNT.
- The distribution of field and the biological effects of muzzle blast wave gun firing were explored.
- Those of you who have read nuclear war fiction will recall that in addition to a blast wave, a heat flash that can set skin on fire and a boatload of radioactive particles, a nuclear explosion will create a pulse that can destroy unhardened electronics. Archive 2005-11-01
- Photographs and video footage from the scene showed charred lorries, their frames buckled by blast waves and intense heat, and punctured by shrapnel. Times, Sunday Times
- The sea boiled and on every side ships were stripped of their funnels and superstructure by the blast wave that hit the shoreline a split-second later.
- Photographs and video footage from the scene showed charred lorries, their frames buckled by blast waves and intense heat, and punctured by shrapnel. Times, Sunday Times
- If multiple warheads are deployed, the different blast waves reinforce each other, increasing their destructive power.
- Tiny Smurfs scatter and run in vain from the whistling bombs, before being felled by blast waves and fiery explosions. Smurfs wiped out by aerial bombing
- Some of the earliest proposals in fact were that one could make spaceships that are propelled by atomic bombs and that the ship actually surfs on the blast wave of a nuclear bomb.