megaton
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- noun
- /ˈmɛɡəˌtʌn/
- Specialized
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megatón
- A 100-megaton superbomb was to be included in the test series for maximum political impact.
- megatons of TNT
- about 100 megatons
- equivalent to 15 megatons
OK, so that's basically it's that sequence of things which produce these enormous, you know multi megaton bombs that have very large yields.
- OK, so that's basically it's that sequence of things which produce these enormous, you know multi megaton bombs that have very large yields.
Examples
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On March 1, 1954, the United States detonated a seventeen-megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
Academic text (2005) -
The total impact would be like a hundred megatons or more.
Fiction book (1998) -
No more than five megatons would be needed.
Academic text (2010) -
This is now a 4-megaton nuclear bomb.
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The energy released is estimated to have been between 12 and 20 megatons.
Academic text (1992) -
That's a five-megaton nuclear device.
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That's nothing compared to what a 20-megaton nuclear bomb can do.
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The explosion had a TNT equivalent of ten megatons.
Academic text (1996) -
The blast has the force of 12 megatons of TNT, 800 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
Academic text (1992) -
The nuclear test had a yield of 5 megatons, causing extensive damage in the surrounding area.
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Etymology
The word megaton is made of mega-, which means 'million' and appears in words like megabyte, and ton, a common word for a large 'weight'. So a megaton literally means 'a million tons' of TNT, which is why we use it to describe very large explosive power.