Explosion, the Glossary
An explosion is a rapid expansion in volume of a given amount of matter associated with an extreme outward release of energy, usually with the generation of high temperatures and release of high-pressure gases.[1]
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136 relations: Acetone peroxide, Air burst, Alfred Nobel, Arc flash, Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Automated teller machine, AZF (factory), Battle of Messines (1917), Binary black hole, Black hole, Boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion, Buncefield fire, Camera, Capacitor, Carrington Event, Castle Bravo, Catalysis, Cádiz Explosion, Chelyabinsk meteor, Chemical potential, Chernobyl disaster, Chicxulub crater, Coal dust, Combustion, Deflagration, Detonation, Dust explosion, Dynamite, East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment, Electric arc, Electric battery, Electrical equipment in hazardous areas, Electromagnet, Energy, Entropic explosion, Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, Eucalyptus, Exothermic process, Explosion protection, Explosive, Flammability limit, Flixborough disaster, Forbes, Frederick Abel, Fuel tank, Gas, Glass, Gravitational wave, GW190521, Halifax Explosion, ... Expand index (86 more) »
- Explosions
Acetone peroxide
Acetone peroxide (also called APEX and mother of Satan) is an organic peroxide and a primary explosive.
See Explosion and Acetone peroxide
Air burst
An air burst or airburst is the detonation of an explosive device such as an anti-personnel artillery shell or a nuclear weapon in the air instead of on contact with the ground or target.
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Bernhard Nobel (21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, inventor, engineer and businessman.
See Explosion and Alfred Nobel
Arc flash
An arc flash is the light and heat produced as part of an arc fault (sometimes referred to as an electrical flashover), a type of electrical explosion or discharge that results from a connection through air to ground or another voltage phase in an electrical system.
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
See Explosion and Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Automated teller machine
An automated teller machine (ATM) is an electronic telecommunications device that enables customers of financial institutions to perform financial transactions, such as cash withdrawals, deposits, funds transfers, balance inquiries or account information inquiries, at any time and without the need for direct interaction with bank staff.
See Explosion and Automated teller machine
AZF (factory)
AZF (French initialism for AZote Fertilisant, i.e. nitrogen fertilizer) was the name of a chemical factory in Toulouse, France, which exploded on 21 September 2001.
See Explosion and AZF (factory)
Battle of Messines (1917)
The Battle of Messines (7–14 June 1917) was an attack by the British Second Army (General Sir Herbert Plumer), on the Western Front, near the village of Messines (now Mesen) in West Flanders, Belgium, during the First World War.
See Explosion and Battle of Messines (1917)
Binary black hole
A binary black hole (BBH), or black hole binary, is a system consisting of two black holes in close orbit around each other.
See Explosion and Binary black hole
Black hole
A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light and other electromagnetic waves, is capable of possessing enough energy to escape it.
Boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion
A boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE) is an explosion caused by the rupture of a vessel containing a pressurized liquid that is or has reached a temperature sufficiently higher than its boiling point at atmospheric pressure. Explosion and boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion are explosions.
See Explosion and Boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion
Buncefield fire
The Buncefield fire was a major fire at an oil storage facility that started at 06:01 UTC on Sunday 11 December 2005 at the Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal, located near the M1 motorway, Hemel Hempstead, in Hertfordshire, England.
See Explosion and Buncefield fire
Camera
A camera is an instrument used to capture and store images and videos, either digitally via an electronic image sensor, or chemically via a light-sensitive material such as photographic film.
Capacitor
In electrical engineering, a capacitor is a device that stores electrical energy by accumulating electric charges on two closely spaced surfaces that are insulated from each other.
Carrington Event
The Carrington Event was the most intense geomagnetic storm in recorded history, peaking on 1–2 September 1859 during solar cycle 10.
See Explosion and Carrington Event
Castle Bravo
Castle Bravo was the first in a series of high-yield thermonuclear weapon design tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, as part of Operation Castle.
See Explosion and Castle Bravo
Catalysis
Catalysis is the increase in rate of a chemical reaction due to an added substance known as a catalyst.
Cádiz Explosion
The Cádiz Explosion was a military accident which occurred at 9:45 pm, on 18 August 1947 at a storage depot in the Base de Defensas Submarinas (Submarine Defence Base) in Cádiz, Spain, when some 1,737 sea mines, torpedoes and depth charges (of a total of 2,228 distributed in two depots), containing 200 tonnes of TNT and amatol, exploded for unknown reasons.
See Explosion and Cádiz Explosion
Chelyabinsk meteor
The Chelyabinsk meteor was a superbolide that entered Earth's atmosphere over the southern Ural region in Russia on 15 February 2013 at about 09:20 YEKT (03:20 UTC).
See Explosion and Chelyabinsk meteor
Chemical potential
In thermodynamics, the chemical potential of a species is the energy that can be absorbed or released due to a change of the particle number of the given species, e.g. in a chemical reaction or phase transition.
See Explosion and Chemical potential
Chernobyl disaster
The Chernobyl disaster began on 26 April 1986 with the explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR, close to the border with the Byelorussian SSR, in the Soviet Union.
See Explosion and Chernobyl disaster
Chicxulub crater
The Chicxulub crater is an impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico.
See Explosion and Chicxulub crater
Coal dust
Coal dust is a fine-powdered form of coal which is created by the crushing, grinding, or pulverization of coal rock.
Combustion
Combustion, or burning, is a high-temperature exothermic redox chemical reaction between a fuel (the reductant) and an oxidant, usually atmospheric oxygen, that produces oxidized, often gaseous products, in a mixture termed as smoke.
Deflagration
Deflagration (Lat: de + flagrare, 'to burn down') is subsonic combustion in which a pre-mixed flame propagates through an explosive or a mixture of fuel and oxidizer.
See Explosion and Deflagration
Detonation
Detonation is a type of combustion involving a supersonic exothermic front accelerating through a medium that eventually drives a shock front propagating directly in front of it.
Dust explosion
A dust explosion is the rapid combustion of fine particles suspended in the air within an enclosed location.
See Explosion and Dust explosion
Dynamite
Dynamite is an explosive made of nitroglycerin, sorbents (such as powdered shells or clay), and stabilizers.
East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment
A freight train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, United States on February 3, 2023, at 8:55 p.m. EST (UTC−5).
See Explosion and East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment
Electric arc
An electric arc (or arc discharge) is an electrical breakdown of a gas that produces a prolonged electrical discharge.
See Explosion and Electric arc
Electric battery
An electric battery is a source of electric power consisting of one or more electrochemical cells with external connections for powering electrical devices.
See Explosion and Electric battery
Electrical equipment in hazardous areas
In electrical and safety engineering, hazardous locations (HazLoc, pronounced haz·lōk) are places where fire or explosion hazards may exist.
See Explosion and Electrical equipment in hazardous areas
Electromagnet
An electromagnet is a type of magnet in which the magnetic field is produced by an electric current.
See Explosion and Electromagnet
Energy
Energy is the quantitative property that is transferred to a body or to a physical system, recognizable in the performance of work and in the form of heat and light.
Entropic explosion
An entropic explosion is an explosion in which the reactants undergo a large change in volume without releasing a large amount of heat. Explosion and entropic explosion are explosions.
See Explosion and Entropic explosion
Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD
Of the many eruptions of Mount Vesuvius, a major stratovolcano in Southern Italy, the best-known is its eruption in 79 AD, which was one of the deadliest in history.
See Explosion and Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD
Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus is a genus of more than 700 species of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae.
Exothermic process
In thermodynamics, an exothermic process is a thermodynamic process or reaction that releases energy from the system to its surroundings, usually in the form of heat, but also in a form of light (e.g. a spark, flame, or flash), electricity (e.g. a battery), or sound (e.g. explosion heard when burning hydrogen).
See Explosion and Exothermic process
Explosion protection
Explosion protection is used to protect all sorts of buildings and civil engineering infrastructure against internal and external explosions or deflagrations. Explosion and explosion protection are explosions.
See Explosion and Explosion protection
Explosive
An explosive (or explosive material) is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion if released suddenly, usually accompanied by the production of light, heat, sound, and pressure.
Flammability limit
Mixtures of dispersed combustible materials (such as gaseous or vaporised fuels, and some dusts) and oxygen in the air will burn only if the fuel concentration lies within well-defined lower and upper bounds determined experimentally, referred to as flammability limits or explosive limits.
See Explosion and Flammability limit
Flixborough disaster
The Flixborough disaster was an explosion at a chemical plant close to the village of Flixborough, North Lincolnshire, England, on Saturday, 1 June 1974.
See Explosion and Flixborough disaster
Forbes
Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.
Frederick Abel
Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, 1st Baronet (17 July 18276 September 1902) was an English chemist who was recognised as the leading British authority on explosives.
See Explosion and Frederick Abel
Fuel tank
A fuel tank (also called a petrol tank or gas tank) is a safe container for flammable fluids, often gasoline or diesel fuel.
Gas
Gas is one of the four fundamental states of matter.
Glass
Glass is an amorphous (non-crystalline) solid.
Gravitational wave
Gravitational waves are waves of the intensity of gravity that are generated by the accelerated masses of binary stars and other motions of gravitating masses, and propagate as waves outward from their source at the speed of light.
See Explosion and Gravitational wave
GW190521
GW190521 (initially S190521g) was a gravitational wave signal resulting from the merger of two black holes.
Halifax Explosion
On the morning of 6 December 1917, the French cargo ship collided with the Norwegian vessel in the harbour of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
See Explosion and Halifax Explosion
Heat
In thermodynamics, heat is the thermal energy transferred between systems due to a temperature difference.
Heat of combustion
The heating value (or energy value or calorific value) of a substance, usually a fuel or food (see food energy), is the amount of heat released during the combustion of a specified amount of it.
See Explosion and Heat of combustion
Henderson, Nevada
Henderson is a city in Clark County, Nevada, United States, about southeast of downtown Las Vegas.
See Explosion and Henderson, Nevada
Impact event
An impact event is a collision between astronomical objects causing measurable effects.
See Explosion and Impact event
Implosion (mechanical process)
Implosion is a process in which objects are destroyed by collapsing (or being squeezed in) on themselves.
See Explosion and Implosion (mechanical process)
Internal combustion engine
An internal combustion engine (ICE or IC engine) is a heat engine in which the combustion of a fuel occurs with an oxidizer (usually air) in a combustion chamber that is an integral part of the working fluid flow circuit.
See Explosion and Internal combustion engine
Iri station explosion
The Iri station explosion was a disaster that occurred in Iri, North Jeolla, South Korea on November 11, 1977, at 9:15 p.m. About 40 tons of dynamite carried in a freight train Gwangju exploded at Iri station.
See Explosion and Iri station explosion
Ivy Mike
Ivy Mike was the codename given to the first full-scale test of a thermonuclear device, in which part of the explosive yield comes from nuclear fusion.
Kepler's Supernova
SN 1604, also known as Kepler's Supernova, Kepler's Nova or Kepler's Star, was a Type Ia supernova that occurred in the Milky Way, in the constellation Ophiuchus.
See Explosion and Kepler's Supernova
Lac-Mégantic rail disaster
The Lac-Mégantic rail disaster occurred in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, Canada, on July6, 2013, at approximately 1:14 a.m. EDT, when an unattended 73-car Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMA) freight train carrying Bakken Formation crude oil rolled down a 1.2% grade from Nantes and derailed downtown, resulting in the explosion and fire of multiple tank cars.
See Explosion and Lac-Mégantic rail disaster
Magma
Magma is the molten or semi-molten natural material from which all igneous rocks are formed.
Magnetic pressure
In physics, magnetic pressure is an energy density associated with a magnetic field.
See Explosion and Magnetic pressure
Meteor air burst
A meteor air burst is a type of air burst in which a meteoroid explodes after entering a planetary body's atmosphere.
See Explosion and Meteor air burst
Meteor Crater
Meteor Crater, or Barringer Crater, is an impact crater about east of Flagstaff and west of Winslow in the desert of northern Arizona, United States.
See Explosion and Meteor Crater
Minoan eruption
The Minoan eruption was a catastrophic volcanic eruption that devastated the Aegean island of Thera (also called Santorini) circa 1600 BCE.
See Explosion and Minoan eruption
Mushroom cloud
A mushroom cloud is a distinctive mushroom-shaped flammagenitus cloud of debris, smoke, and usually condensed water vapour resulting from a large explosion. Explosion and mushroom cloud are explosions.
See Explosion and Mushroom cloud
Nedelin catastrophe
The Nedelin catastrophe or Nedelin disaster, known in Russia as the Catastrophe at Baikonur Cosmodrome, was a launch pad accident that occurred on 24 October 1960 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Soviet Kazakhstan.
See Explosion and Nedelin catastrophe
Nitroglycerin
Nitroglycerin (NG) (alternative spelling of nitroglycerine), also known as trinitroglycerol (TNG), nitro, glyceryl trinitrate (GTN), or 1,2,3-trinitroxypropane, is a dense, colorless or pale yellow, oily, explosive liquid most commonly produced by nitrating glycerol with white fuming nitric acid under conditions appropriate to the formation of the nitric acid ester.
See Explosion and Nitroglycerin
Nuclear explosion
A nuclear explosion is an explosion that occurs as a result of the rapid release of energy from a high-speed nuclear reaction.
See Explosion and Nuclear explosion
Nuclear fission
Nuclear fission is a reaction in which the nucleus of an atom splits into two or more smaller nuclei.
See Explosion and Nuclear fission
Nuclear fusion
Nuclear fusion is a reaction in which two or more atomic nuclei, usually deuterium and tritium (hydrogen isotopes), combine to form one or more different atomic nuclei and subatomic particles (neutrons or protons).
See Explosion and Nuclear fusion
Nuclear weapon
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion.
See Explosion and Nuclear weapon
Oppau explosion
The Oppau explosion occurred on September 21, 1921, when approximately 4,500 metric tons of a mixture of ammonium sulfate and ammonium nitrate fertilizer stored in a tower silo exploded at a BASF plant in Oppau, now part of Ludwigshafen, Germany, killing 500–600 people and injuring about 2,000 more.
See Explosion and Oppau explosion
Opposite (semantics)
In lexical semantics, opposites are words lying in an inherently incompatible binary relationship.
See Explosion and Opposite (semantics)
Oruanui eruption
The Oruanui eruption of New Zealand's Taupō Volcano (also known as the Kawakawa eruption or Kawakawa/Oruanui event) was the world's most recent supereruption, and largest phreatomagmatic eruption characterised to date.
See Explosion and Oruanui eruption
Pan Am Flight 103
Pan Am Flight 103 (PA103/PAA103) was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit via a stopover in London and another in New York City.
See Explosion and Pan Am Flight 103
PEPCON disaster
On May 4, 1988, a fire followed by several explosions occurred at the Pacific Engineering and Production Company of Nevada (PEPCON) chemical plant in Henderson, Nevada.
See Explosion and PEPCON disaster
Port Chicago disaster
The Port Chicago disaster was a deadly munitions explosion of the ship SS E. A. Bryan on July 17, 1944, at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California, United States.
See Explosion and Port Chicago disaster
Port Neal fertilizer plant explosion
The Port Neal fertilizer plant explosion occurred on December 13, 1994 in the ammonium nitrate plant at the Terra International, Inc., Port Neal Complex, south of Sioux City, Iowa, United States.
See Explosion and Port Neal fertilizer plant explosion
Pressure
Pressure (symbol: p or P) is the force applied perpendicular to the surface of an object per unit area over which that force is distributed.
Propane
Propane is a three-carbon alkane with the molecular formula.
RAF Fauld explosion
The RAF Fauld explosion was a military accident which occurred at 11:11am on Monday, 27 November 1944 at the RAF Fauld underground munitions storage depot in Staffordshire, England.
See Explosion and RAF Fauld explosion
Reciprocating engine
A reciprocating engine, also often known as a piston engine, is typically a heat engine that uses one or more reciprocating pistons to convert high temperature and high pressure into a rotating motion.
See Explosion and Reciprocating engine
Redox
Redox (reduction–oxidation or oxidation–reduction) is a type of chemical reaction in which the oxidation states of the reactants change.
Rock (geology)
In geology, rock (or stone) is any naturally occurring solid mass or aggregate of minerals or mineraloid matter.
See Explosion and Rock (geology)
Ryongchon disaster
The Ryongchŏn disaster was a train disaster that occurred on 22 April 2004 in the town of Ryongchŏn, North Korea, near the border with the People's Republic of China.
See Explosion and Ryongchon disaster
Sand
Sand is a granular material composed of finely divided mineral particles.
September 11 attacks
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001.
See Explosion and September 11 attacks
Shaped charge
A shaped charge is an explosive charge shaped to focus the effect of the explosive's energy.
See Explosion and Shaped charge
Shock wave
In physics, a shock wave (also spelled shockwave), or shock, is a type of propagating disturbance that moves faster than the local speed of sound in the medium.
Siege of Belgrade (1717)
The siege of Belgrade was a successful attempt by Austrian troops under the command of Prince Eugene of Savoy to capture the strategically important city of Belgrade from the Ottoman Empire.
See Explosion and Siege of Belgrade (1717)
SN 1006
SN 1006 was a supernova that is likely the brightest observed stellar event in recorded history, reaching an estimated −7.5 visual magnitude, and exceeding roughly sixteen times the brightness of Venus.
SN 1572
SN 1572 (Tycho's Supernova, Tycho's Nova), or B Cassiopeiae (B Cas), was a supernova of Type Ia in the constellation Cassiopeia, one of eight supernovae visible to the naked eye in historical records.
Soil
Soil, also commonly referred to as earth or dirt, is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support the life of plants and soil organisms.
Solar flare
A solar flare is a relatively intense, localized emission of electromagnetic radiation in the Sun's atmosphere.
SpaceX Starship integrated flight test 1
Starship integrated flight test 1 was the first flight test of the SpaceX Starship launch vehicle.
See Explosion and SpaceX Starship integrated flight test 1
Standard enthalpy of formation
In chemistry and thermodynamics, the standard enthalpy of formation or standard heat of formation of a compound is the change of enthalpy during the formation of 1 mole of the substance from its constituent elements in their reference state, with all substances in their standard states.
See Explosion and Standard enthalpy of formation
Star
A star is a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by self-gravity.
Stratum
In geology and related fields, a stratum (strata) is a layer of rock or sediment characterized by certain lithologic properties or attributes that distinguish it from adjacent layers from which it is separated by visible surfaces known as either bedding surfaces or bedding planes.
Structural material
Structural engineering depends on the knowledge of materials and their properties, in order to understand how different materials resist and support loads.
See Explosion and Structural material
Supernova
A supernova (supernovae or supernovas) is a powerful and luminous explosion of a star.
Supersonic speed
Supersonic speed is the speed of an object that exceeds the speed of sound (Mach 1).
See Explosion and Supersonic speed
Switchgear
In an electric power system, a switchgear is composed of electrical disconnect switches, fuses or circuit breakers used to control, protect and isolate electrical equipment.
Temperature
Temperature is a physical quantity that quantitatively expresses the attribute of hotness or coldness.
Tenerife airport disaster
The Tenerife airport disaster occurred on 27 March 1977, when two Boeing 747 passenger jets collided on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport (now Tenerife North Airport) on the Spanish island of Tenerife.
See Explosion and Tenerife airport disaster
Texas City disaster
The 1947 Texas City disaster was an industrial accident that occurred on April 16, 1947, in the port of Texas City, Texas, United States, located in Galveston Bay.
See Explosion and Texas City disaster
Theia (planet)
Theia is a hypothesized ancient planet in the early Solar System which, according to the giant-impact hypothesis, collided with the early Earth around 4.5 billion years ago, with some of the resulting ejected debris coalescing to form the Moon.
See Explosion and Theia (planet)
Total body disruption
Total body disruption is the acute, fatal destruction of the body.
See Explosion and Total body disruption
Trinity (nuclear test)
Trinity was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon, conducted by the United States Army at 5:29 a.m. MWT (11:29:21 GMT) on July 16, 1945, as part of the Manhattan Project.
See Explosion and Trinity (nuclear test)
Tsar Bomba
The Tsar Bomba (code name: Ivan or Vanya), also known by the alphanumerical designation "AN602", was a thermonuclear aerial bomb, and the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created and tested.
Tunguska event
The Tunguska event was a large explosion of between 3 and 50 megatons that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia, on the morning of 30 June 1908.
See Explosion and Tunguska event
TWA Flight 800
Trans World Airlines Flight 800 (TW800/TWA800) was a Boeing 747-100 that exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, on July 17, 1996, at approximately 8:31p.m. EDT, 12 minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, on a scheduled international passenger flight to Rome with a stopover in Paris.
See Explosion and TWA Flight 800
Underwater explosion
An underwater explosion (also known as an UNDEX) is a chemical or nuclear explosion that occurs under the surface of a body of water. Explosion and underwater explosion are explosions.
See Explosion and Underwater explosion
Volcano
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
Volume
Volume is a measure of regions in three-dimensional space.
Wanggongchang Explosion
The Wanggongchang Explosion (t), also known as the Great Tianqi Explosion (labels), Wanggongchang Calamity (labels) or Beijing Explosive Incident in the late Ming dynasty (labels), was a catastrophic explosion that occurred on May 30, 1626, during the late reign of the Tianqi Emperor at the heavily populated Ming Chinese capital of Beijing, and reportedly killed around 20,000 people.
See Explosion and Wanggongchang Explosion
West Fertilizer Company explosion
On April 17, 2013, an ammonium nitrate explosion occurred at the West Fertilizer Company storage and distribution facility in West, Texas, United States (north of Waco), while emergency services personnel were responding to a fire at the facility.
See Explosion and West Fertilizer Company explosion
West Loch disaster
The West Loch Disaster was a maritime accident during World War II at Pearl Harbor U.S. Naval Base in Hawaii.
See Explosion and West Loch disaster
Wildfire
A wildfire, forest fire, or a bushfire is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of combustible vegetation.
Work (thermodynamics)
Thermodynamic work is one of the principal processes by which a thermodynamic system can interact with its surroundings and exchange energy.
See Explosion and Work (thermodynamics)
Yellowstone Caldera
The Yellowstone Caldera, sometimes referred to as the Yellowstone Supervolcano, is a volcanic caldera and supervolcano in Yellowstone National Park in the Western United States.
See Explosion and Yellowstone Caldera
Youngest Toba eruption
The Toba eruption (sometimes called the Toba supereruption or the Youngest Toba eruption) was a supervolcanic eruption that occurred about 74,000 years ago during the Late Pleistocene at the site of present-day Lake Toba in Sumatra, Indonesia.
See Explosion and Youngest Toba eruption
1257 Samalas eruption
In 1257, a catastrophic eruption occurred at Samalas, a volcano on the Indonesian island of Lombok.
See Explosion and 1257 Samalas eruption
1815 eruption of Mount Tambora
Mount Tambora is a volcano on the island of Sumbawa in present-day Indonesia, then part of the Dutch East Indies, and its 1815 eruption was the most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded human history.
See Explosion and 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora
1883 eruption of Krakatoa
The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa (Letusan Krakatau 1883) in the Sunda Strait occurred from 20 May until 21 October 1883, peaking in the late morning hours of 27 August when over 70% of the island of Krakatoa and its surrounding archipelago were destroyed as it collapsed into a caldera.
See Explosion and 1883 eruption of Krakatoa
1887 Nanaimo mine explosion
The Nanaimo mine explosion occurred on May 3, 1887, in Nanaimo, British Columbia killing 150 miners.
See Explosion and 1887 Nanaimo mine explosion
1944 Bombay explosion
The Bombay explosion (or Bombay docks explosion) occurred on 14 April 1944, in the Victoria Dock of Bombay, British India (now Mumbai, India) when the British freighter SS ''Fort Stikine'' caught fire and was destroyed in two giant blasts, scattering debris, sinking surrounding ships and setting fire to the area, killing around 800 to 1,300 people.
See Explosion and 1944 Bombay explosion
1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens
On March27, 1980, a series of volcanic explosions and pyroclastic flows began at Mount St. Helens in Skamania County, Washington, United States.
See Explosion and 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens
1988 Poole explosion
On 21 June 1988, a large fire and explosion engulfed the BDH chemical plant in Poole, Dorset, England.
See Explosion and 1988 Poole explosion
1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo
The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines' Luzon Volcanic Arc was the second-largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century, behind only the 1912 eruption of Novarupta in Alaska.
See Explosion and 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo
2007 New York City steam explosion
On July 18, 2007, an explosion in Manhattan, New York City, sent a geyser of hot steam up from beneath a busy intersection, with a 40-story-high shower of mud and flying debris raining down on the crowded streets of Midtown Manhattan.
See Explosion and 2007 New York City steam explosion
2008 Gërdec explosions
At approximately 12 p.m. local time on Saturday, March 15th, 2008, an ex-military ammunition depot in the village of Gërdec in the Vorë Municipality of Albania (14 kilometers from Tirana, the nation's capital), U.S. and Albanian munitions experts were preparing to destroy stockpiles of obsolete ammunition.
See Explosion and 2008 Gërdec explosions
2009 Cataño oil refinery fire
The 2009 Cataño oil refinery fire, also known as the CAPECO explosion, was a fire that began with an explosion on October 23, 2009, and was extinguished on October 25 at the Caribbean Petroleum Corporation (CAPECO) oil refinery and oil depot in Bayamón, Puerto Rico.
See Explosion and 2009 Cataño oil refinery fire
2015 Tianjin explosions
On 12 August 2015, a series of explosions at the Port of Tianjin in Tianjin, Northern China, killed 173 people, according to official reports, and injured hundreds of others.
See Explosion and 2015 Tianjin explosions
2020 Beirut explosion
On 4 August 2020, a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the Port of Beirut in the capital city of Lebanon exploded, causing at least 218 deaths, 7,000 injuries, and US$15 billion in property damage, as well as leaving an estimated 300,000 people homeless.
See Explosion and 2020 Beirut explosion
2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption and tsunami
In December 2021, an eruption began on Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai, a submarine volcano in the Tongan archipelago in the southern Pacific Ocean.
See Explosion and 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption and tsunami
See also
Explosions
- Blowback (steam engine)
- Boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion
- Bombing
- Condensation cloud
- Coulomb explosion
- Dust explosions
- Dynamic design analysis method
- Entropic explosion
- Exploding animals
- Exploding tree
- Exploding trousers
- Explosion
- Explosion protection
- Explosion welding
- Explosive eruptions
- Frank-Kamenetskii theory
- Gas explosions
- High-voltage transformer fire barriers
- Intracolonic explosion
- Kesteven 75
- Largest artificial non-nuclear explosions
- List of explosions
- Majda's model
- Mushroom cloud
- Peaceful nuclear explosions
- Rapid phase transition
- Steam explosion
- Supernovae
- Sympathetic detonation
- Underwater explosion
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosion
Also known as Blast-Line, Bomb explosion, Chemical Explosion, Explodable, Explode, Exploded, Exploding, Explosions, Explosive force.
, Heat, Heat of combustion, Henderson, Nevada, Impact event, Implosion (mechanical process), Internal combustion engine, Iri station explosion, Ivy Mike, Kepler's Supernova, Lac-Mégantic rail disaster, Magma, Magnetic pressure, Meteor air burst, Meteor Crater, Minoan eruption, Mushroom cloud, Nedelin catastrophe, Nitroglycerin, Nuclear explosion, Nuclear fission, Nuclear fusion, Nuclear weapon, Oppau explosion, Opposite (semantics), Oruanui eruption, Pan Am Flight 103, PEPCON disaster, Port Chicago disaster, Port Neal fertilizer plant explosion, Pressure, Propane, RAF Fauld explosion, Reciprocating engine, Redox, Rock (geology), Ryongchon disaster, Sand, September 11 attacks, Shaped charge, Shock wave, Siege of Belgrade (1717), SN 1006, SN 1572, Soil, Solar flare, SpaceX Starship integrated flight test 1, Standard enthalpy of formation, Star, Stratum, Structural material, Supernova, Supersonic speed, Switchgear, Temperature, Tenerife airport disaster, Texas City disaster, Theia (planet), Total body disruption, Trinity (nuclear test), Tsar Bomba, Tunguska event, TWA Flight 800, Underwater explosion, Volcano, Volume, Wanggongchang Explosion, West Fertilizer Company explosion, West Loch disaster, Wildfire, Work (thermodynamics), Yellowstone Caldera, Youngest Toba eruption, 1257 Samalas eruption, 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora, 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, 1887 Nanaimo mine explosion, 1944 Bombay explosion, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1988 Poole explosion, 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo, 2007 New York City steam explosion, 2008 Gërdec explosions, 2009 Cataño oil refinery fire, 2015 Tianjin explosions, 2020 Beirut explosion, 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption and tsunami.