Definitions for nuclear explosion
nu·cle·ar ex·plo·sion

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1. nuclear explosion, atomic explosionnoun

   the explosion of an atomic bomb

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1. 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. The driving reaction may be nuclear fission or nuclear fusion or a multi-stage cascading combination of the two, though to date all fusion-based weapons have used a fission device to initiate fusion, and a pure fusion weapon remains a hypothetical device. Atmospheric nuclear explosions are associated with mushroom clouds, although mushroom clouds can occur with large chemical explosions. It is possible to have an air-burst nuclear explosion without those clouds. Nuclear explosions produce radiation and radioactive debris that is harmful to humans and can cause moderate to severe skin burns, eye damage, radiation sickness, radiation-induced cancer and possible death depending on how far from the blast radius a person is. Nuclear explosions can also have detrimental effects on the climate, lasting from months to years. In a 1983 article, Carl Sagan claimed that a small-scale nuclear war could release enough particles into the atmosphere to cause the planet to cool and cause crops, animals, and agriculture to disappear across the globe—an effect named nuclear winter.

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1. nuclear explosion

   A nuclear explosion is a swift release of energy in the form of light, heat, shock waves, and deadly radiation resulting from a rapid, uncontrolled nuclear reaction. This explosion often occurs when a weapon-grade level of nuclear materials like uranium-235, plutonium-239, or hydrogen isotopes are forced together to reach a critical mass, thus initiating an atomic or nuclear chain reaction.

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1. Nuclear explosion

   A nuclear explosion is a man-made explosion that occurs as a result of the rapid release of energy from an intentionally generated high-speed nuclear reaction. The driving reaction may be nuclear fission, nuclear fusion or a multistage cascading combination of the two, though to date all fusion based weapons have used a fission device to initiate fusion, and a pure fusion weapon remains a hypothetical device. Atmospheric nuclear explosions are associated with mushroom clouds, although mushroom clouds can occur with large chemical explosions, and it is possible to have an air-burst nuclear explosion without these clouds. Nuclear explosions produce radiation and radioactive debris.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of nuclear explosion in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of nuclear explosion in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of nuclear explosion in a Sentence

1. Jim Eckles:

   Every neutron splits an atom, two neutrons come out they each split atoms, they split four more and it's a chain reaction, and it cascades and it all happens in a billionth of a second. Boom, you've got a nuclear explosion.

2. Walid Abdo:

   It was like a nuclear explosion.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=nuclear explosion
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Explosion
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=nuclear explosion