explosive unit
- noun
- Specialized
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unidad explosiva
- An explosive unit can measure the impact of a blast.
- FBI explosives unit
Examples
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Experts from the explosive unit analyzed the debris to determine the cause of the explosion.
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The explosive unit measured the blast radius created by the bomb using advanced technology.
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Researchers compared different materials by assessing their energy release in explosive units.
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The impact of the blast was calculated using a standard explosive unit.
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The safety regulations specify limits expressed in explosive units to prevent structural damage.
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The explosive unit was deployed for the demolition.
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The military's explosive unit conducts tests to evaluate the force generated by different explosives.
Synonyms
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A measure for how strong a push or pull is, like the newton
A unit of explosive energy equal to one trillion tons of TNT
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward adjective + noun composition: 'explosive' (related to explosions) modifies 'unit' (a measure), so a learner who knows both words can infer it denotes a unit for measuring something about explosions. While 'unit' can also mean an individual device, the combination is semantically compositional and follows regular English patterns, making the measurement sense reasonably transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Explosive unit comes from the idea of counting how much power a blast has by comparing a fixed explosive amount called a unit, like a standard block of TNT. People used a standard blast as a 'unit' so they could say a big explosion was the same as several of those blocks, and that's why explosive unit now means a measure of the force of an explosion.