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hydrogen bomb

/hahy-druh-juhn bom/US // ˈhaɪ drə dʒən ˌbɒm //

氢弹

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a bomb, more powerful than an atomic bomb, that derives its explosive energy from the thermonuclear fusion reaction of hydrogen isotopes.

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  • Harold Agnew, former director of the Los Alamos nuclear weapons lab, believed that world leaders should be periodically required to witness the detonation of a hydrogen bomb, simply to remind them of what would happen if things got out of hand.

  • No national leader in the world today has seen a nuclear explosion, much less the detonation of a multi-megaton hydrogen bomb.

  • The effect is akin to a hydrogen bomb, a powerful thermonuclear weapon in which fission reactions trigger fusion, says Matt Caplan of Illinois State University in Normal.

  • He also worked on Project Matterhorn B in the early 1950s, the controversial US effort to develop a hydrogen bomb.

  • 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.

  • Hydrogen sulphid is easily prepared in the simple apparatus shown in Fig. 30.

  • It is allowed to cool, and hydrogen sulphid gas is passed through it for about five minutes.

  • Ammonia is a compound of nitrogen and hydrogen, but it cannot be formed by the direct union of these gases.

  • 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.