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To go from zero to apocalypse faster than sound can warn you.
means To explode, or to make something explode, suddenly and violently.
from From Latin 'detonare,' to thunder down — built from 'de-' (down) plus 'tonare' (to thunder), the same root that rumbles inside 'thunder' itself and the god Jupiter's epithet 'Tonans,' the Thunderer. It entered English in the 18th century, first describing chemical reactions that went off with a thunderclap before settling into the language of bombs and blasts.
- supersonic shock
- Detonation waves outrun their own sound at 6,000+ m/s
- vs deflagration
- Deflagration burns; detonation hammers through with a shockwave
- word root
- From Latin detonare, to thunder down
- diamond maker
- Controlled blasts forge nanodiamonds in microseconds
- sympathetic blast
- One charge can detonate a neighbor without contact
for instance
trinity test — first nuclear weapon detonated in new mexico, july 16, 1945
hiroshima bombing — atomic bomb detonated over japan, august 6, 1945, killed ~70,000 people
tsar bomba — largest nuclear weapon ever detonated by soviet union, october 30, 1961