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Meanings of kiloton in English

A unit of mass equal to one thousand megagrams.

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        1
        In August 1945, a 16-kilotonne atomic bomb killed 140,000 people and reduced a thriving city to rubble.
        The Guardian
        2
        Our national ceiling for ammonia emissions in the atmosphere is 116 kilotonnes a year.
        The Irish Times
        3
        Other experts say initial indications suggest 20 kilotonnes or more.
        BBC
        4
        The Russian meteor is estimated to have exploded with the energy of how many kilotonnes of TNT?
        The Guardian
        5
        The bomb was thought to have had a power range from 50 to 120 kilotonnes.
        Radio NZ
        Usage of kiloton in English
        1
        The 260-kiloton bomb floated gracefully down to earth on a billowing parachute.
        One minute to midnight: kennedy, khrushchev, and castro on the b...
        2
        The missile cache is right underneath here and it contains four thirty-kiloton warheads.
        Zero Point
        3
        The spaceplane sensors registered an emp pulse equivalent to about a kiloton blast.
        The Reality Dysfunction
        4
        Finally there was the kiloton fusion nuke strapped to his side in its harness.
        The Reality Dysfunction
        5
        The kiloton nuke detonated at the bottom of a twenty-metre crater in the river.
        The Reality Dysfunction
        6
        The blast was estimated at the kiloton level, the metric used for tactical nuclear weapons.
        Legacy of ashes: the history of the cia
        7
        Each mass should give about a two kiloton explosion.
        Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet
        8
        If Nightshade railguns were indiscriminate, what the hell did he think a ten-kiloton Krait was?
        Earth strike: star carrier: book one
        9
        It's small, electron compressed deuterium tritium core, I think; maybe point two of a kiloton blast.
        The Neutronium Alchemist
        10
        Chas datavised the activation code into the kiloton bomb strapped in its harness at his side.
        The Reality Dysfunction
        11
        A lieutenant commander was assigned full-time to look after the torpedo and service its 10-kiloton warhead.
        One minute to midnight: kennedy, khrushchev, and castro on the b...
        12
        Part of the Department of Energy's Operation Ranger program, "Easy" delivered a 1-kiloton payload.
        Wired
        13
        I issued the team leaders with kiloton nukes.
        The Reality Dysfunction
        14
        This is the detonator for the one-kiloton device.
        Warlord: an alex hawke novel
        15
        By way of comparison, the bomb that destroyed the Japanese city of Hiroshima was a 15-kiloton device.
        Radio NZ
        16
        Maybe not even a kiloton, because I don't have containment to keep the parts together very long.
        Jem
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