Unit of mass equivalent to 1000 tonnes.
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.
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