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  2. Varoom! - Wikipedia

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    Varoom! is an explosion that is regarded as part of that theme. [3] Varoom!, which depicts an instantaneous explosion, is composed of the primary colors presented over a light dotted background. Black and white specs add crackle to the composition.

  3. Operation Snowball (test) - Wikipedia

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    The test was held at the Suffield Experimental Station in Alberta and was the largest ever man-made, non-accidental explosion in Canada. The test was also the first of its kind using a stacked TNT block hemisphere of such magnitude, a method repeated in six subsequent tests such as Operation Sailor Hat and Prairie Flat .

  4. Chernobyl disaster - Wikipedia

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    The force of the second explosion and the ratio of xenon radioisotopes released after the accident led Sergei A. Pakhomov and Yuri V. Dubasov in 2009 to theorize that the second explosion could have been an extremely fast nuclear power transient resulting from core material melting in the absence of its water coolant and moderator.

  5. List of explosions - Wikipedia

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    An explosion at an oil facility of the state-run NNCP company. [101] 14 June 2020 China: Wenling: 19 170+ A fuel tanker crashed and exploded. Several buildings were severely damaged. [102] 21 June 2020 Ukraine: Kyiv: 5 5 Gas explosion in a residential building. [103] The explosion was caused by negligence during verification of gas counters ...

  6. 1992 Guadalajara explosions - Wikipedia

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    Four minutes later another explosion was registered in González Gallo Avenue. At 10:15 factory workers along González Gallo Avenue began to evacuate, just before rescue teams and volunteers began to arrive in areas affected by the explosions. At 10:23 the fifth explosion occurred, at the intersection of Gante and Calzada del Ejército.

  7. 2007 New York City steam explosion - Wikipedia

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    The explosion, which occurred just before 6:00 p.m. local time, [1] near the peak of the evening rush hour, was caused by the failure of a Consolidated Edison 24-inch (0.61 m) underground steam pipe installed in 1924. [1] [11] The pipe was located at 41st Street and Lexington Avenue, near Grand Central Terminal.

  8. Nuclear explosion - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Largest artificial non-nuclear explosions - Wikipedia

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    Explosion of the mine under Hawthorn Ridge Redoubt, 1 July 1916. On the morning of 1 July 1916, a series of 19 mines of varying sizes was blown to start the Battle of the Somme. The explosions constituted what was then the loudest human-made sound in history, and could be heard in London.