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atomic bomb

/uh-tom-ik bom/US // əˈtɒm ɪk ˌbɒm //

原子弹,原子弹,原子炸弹,原子彈

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a bomb whose potency is derived from nuclear fission of atoms of fissionable material with the consequent conversion of part of their mass into energy.
    • : a bomb whose explosive force comes from a chain reaction based on nuclear fission in U-235 or plutonium.

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Examples

  • Then the Americans, successful in their mission, created — and dropped — a workable atomic bomb.

  • It says more or less that we are standing before a tree that suffered an atomic bomb attack.

  • Nuclear energy, a spinoff from the pursuit of the atomic bomb, was sold to the world by US President Dwight Eisenhower as “atoms for peace.”

  • Apparently the physics is similar to the development of the cloud in an atomic bomb, although the source of the "explosion" is very different.

  • In the aftermath of the first test of an atomic bomb, in July 1945, all this debris fused together, leaving the ground of the New Mexico test site coated with a glassy substance now called trinitite.

  • Policemen on the show joke about prison riots, bomb threats, and the shooting of unarmed civilians.

  • But I think Steve Austin has to team up with a Japanese holdout to stop a nuclear bomb from going off or something.

  • In the middle of all of that past suffering and present-day conflict, this Cosby bomb was dropped.

  • Even a relatively small 250-pound bomb could kill or injure friendly troops who are within 650 feet of the explosion.

  • The reason pilots would choose to use guns over a bomb or a missile is simple.

  • More like bomb-shells, military mines, torpedoes, and nitroglycerine trains.

  • The trench mortars—bomb guns they call them—will be ready in Japan in two and a half months' time.

  • We only know that under certain conditions the old atomic associations break up, and new ones are formed.

  • That boy shows old Rachels blood, soliloquized the mistress of Wavertree Hall; he would not run if there were a bomb under him!

  • Villeroi's reply was to commence the bombardment at once, and forthwith bomb-shells and red-hot shot came pouring on the town.