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the small button that pretends it isn't responsible for what happens next
means A device that triggers an explosion, setting off a larger charge by providing the initial spark or shock.
from From Latin 'detonare,' to thunder down — 'de-' (down) plus 'tonare' (to thunder), the same root that rumbles through 'thunder' itself and English 'astonish' (literally to be struck as if by a thunderclap). The word arrived in the 19th century alongside the explosives it served, naming the small thing that calls down the thunder.
- tiny trigger
- A spark fires a chain reaction across the whole charge
- blasting cap
- Alfred Nobel invented it before dynamite itself
- two stages
- A small explosive sets off the big stubborn one
- plunger myth
- Movie dynamite plungers are spring-loaded generators inside
- safer now
- Electronic versions ignore stray radio signals and lightning
nuclear device hiroshima — us military detonated uranium gun-type bomb over hiroshima on august 6, 1945
tsar bomba soviet union — ussr detonated the largest nuclear weapon ever on october 30, 1961 in novaya zemlya
piper alpha oil rig — explosion triggered by faulty safety systems killed 167 workers in north sea on july 6, 1988