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blast effect

[′blast i′fekt]

(physics)

Violent air movements and pressure changes and the destruction or damage resulting therefrom, generally caused by an explosion on or above the surface of the earth.

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Its effects, although not unimportant, are relatively minor compared with the blast effects, thermal flash, initial nuclear radiation, and local fallout.

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One night, during the war, the Birchgrove areas was straddled by a number of parachute mines, which exploded with a blast effect.

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When a Special Forces A Team or a field team can call on a B-52 or a B-1 at 38,000 to 41,000 feet with 2,000-pound class weapons and in real time discuss notions of fusing and blast effect and be able to deliver those, what an amazing capability.

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Scores of thousands of rockets ( each with the blast effect of a six-inch shell ( set up a loud, continuous rumbling noise, above which the sharp crack of the four-inch guns near us could only just be heard.

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The RPG struck the HMMWV just behind the driver's door and its blast effect traversed the rear of the vehicle, exiting near the right rear tailgate.

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The twelve-kiloton Hiroshima weapon had had a blast effect alone equivalent to some twenty-five million pounds of TNT--that's million.

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He figured the blast effect of the blanks probably bruised him, and told the doctor so.

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One is the blast effect that radiates the air, and this can cause horrendous injuries, particularly burns.

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The blast effect shock wave propagates through the different medium of eyeball causing contusion and concussion injuries.