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Meanings of kilotonne in English
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kilotonelada Unit of mass equivalent to 1000 tonnes.
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Examples for "kiloton"
Examples for "kiloton"
1
The 260-kiloton bomb floated gracefully down to earth on a billowing parachute.
2
The missile cache is right underneath here and it contains four thirty-kiloton warheads.
3
The spaceplane sensors registered an emp pulse equivalent to about a kiloton blast.
4
Finally there was the kiloton fusion nuke strapped to his side in its harness.
5
The kiloton nuke detonated at the bottom of a twenty-metre crater in the river.
Usage of kilotonne in English
1
In August 1945, a 16-kilotonne atomic bomb killed 140,000 people and reduced a thriving city to rubble.
2
Our national ceiling for ammonia emissions in the atmosphere is 116 kilotonnes a year.
3
Other experts say initial indications suggest 20 kilotonnes or more.
4
The Russian meteor is estimated to have exploded with the energy of how many kilotonnes of TNT?
5
The bomb was thought to have had a power range from 50 to 120 kilotonnes.
6
The project, he said, had the explicit goal of producing five warheads, each with the yield of 10 kilotonnes of TNT.
7
The bomb dropped by the US on Hiroshima in 1945 had a yield of about 15 kilotonnes.
8
The meteorite exploded with a force around 30 times that of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima, or 500 kilotonnes of TNT.
9
Travelling at a speed of 12 miles per second, the rock exploded with the energy of around 500 kilotonnes of TNT, researchers found.