Detonation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DETONATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of detonating
• the action of causing a bomb or explosive device to explode
• a loud explosion
• combustion of a substance which is initiated suddenly and propagates extremely rapidly, giving rise to a shock wave
• the premature combustion of fuel in an internal combustion engine, causing pinking.
• An explosion or sudden report made by the instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances\' as, the detonation of gun cotton.
• a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction
• the act of detonating an explosive
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the action or process of detonating

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Words that contain DETONATION

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How to use DETONATION in a sentence

• The detonation of the bursting boilers, resounding through the city, set the excited Sunday crowd very near to a panic.
• I was busy writing, when suddenly I heard a fearful detonation, followed by report on report.
• A quarter of an hour passed, and then another detonation similar to the first sounded in our ears on the left rear flank, followed, as before, by a dense cloud of smoke.
• As I hurried to the window there came another far-off detonation, a curious wailing whistle swept across the sky, and over behind the roofs to the left there was another crash.
• It was accompanied by a sharp detonation that may be compared to the report of a cannon.
• It was as if the mountain had suddenly bared its fiery heart to the heavens, and a muffled detonation reached my ears.
• At intervals a loud detonation from the volcano shook the air, and the mystery and awe of the enveloping gloom were so palpable as almost to be felt.
• Once in a while the volcano thundered a deep detonation that caused the windows to shiver, but the Americans were getting used to the sound and paid little heed to it.
• After an interval a long stab of light pierced the dusk and the round detonation of old-fashioned black powder shook the silence.
• The puffs of smoke from the detonation shell hung in the air for minutes on end, like balls of fleece cotton, before they slowly expanded and were dissipated.
• Then there was a loud wailing noise followed by a terrific detonation.
• No dull boom in the distance followed by a long-drawn whine, but only the earth and smoke thrown darkly up and then the deafening double detonation.
• But the captain had disappeared, and three minutes had not elapsed when a detonation was heard.
• The scream of shells, and the blaze and detonation with which they burst, were incessant.
• In this case there was no burst, but only a detonation of the fuse.
• They were swept apart, and a great detonation boomed across to expectant ears.
• If his bullet only killed one of them, the frightful detonation of his gun put to flight twenty or thirty.
• There he waited behind the steel-bound door for the coming detonation.
• He could feel the building shake with the tremor of the detonation, shake and quiver like a ship pounded by strong head seas.
• For at the head of the second stairway still another sheet of armored steel blocked his passage, and still again the hurried, hollow detonation shook the building.
• The detonation of the blast goes shrieking up to heaven.
• Several natives fell, and yells, accompanied by shots, replied to the detonation of the fire-arms.
• No detonation was heard outside, where air was wanting, but through the port-lights Barbicane saw the prolonged flame, which was immediately extinguished.
• Either portions of the flying steel from the exploded mine had punctured the skin of the submarine, or else the plates had been loosened by the detonation.
• The Boche ammunition dump they were to assail had been blown into a thousand fragments, the detonation of the explosion having been heard for miles.
• Suddenly, far below, toward the river, a crashing detonation shattered harsh echoes from shore to shore.
• Close by, a thunderous detonation crashed through the mist.
• The cannon were all fired together, and their tremendous detonation made the very earth about the Gulf of Uraba shake.
• The Spaniards fired their cannon, and the natives, alarmed by the detonation and by the slaughter that resulted from the well-aimed shot, took to flight in various directions.
• All the next day the terrible detonation kept up, and a hail of bullet-like stones poured downward from the skies.
• But the words were again lost amid the lashing, deafening detonation, which was prolonged with the continuous violence of a fusillade.
• At length we saw the lifting of the roof in a cloud of red dust, and then heard an exceedingly heavy but low detonation.
• When frozen, too, it requires a more powerful detonation to explode it, but it is less sensitive to shock.
• The gases resulting from detonation are chiefly water in the gaseous form, nitrogen, and a little carbon dioxide.
• Any explosive whose detonation is very rapid is a high explosive, but the term has chiefly been applied to the nitro-explosives.

Similar words containing TONA without suffix tion and without prefix de

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