kiloton
IPA: kˈɪɫʌtɑn
noun
- A measure of the strength of an explosion or a bomb based on how many thousand tons of TNT would be needed to produce the same energy.
- One thousand tons.
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Examples of "kiloton" in Sentences
- The device had a 70 kiloton yield.
- The 89 had a 200 kiloton design yield,
- A pipeline exploded with a burst of 3 kilotons.
- It can also deliver a 200 kiloton nuclear warhead.
- The yield was the equivalent of 140 kilotons of TNT.
- The warhead had a high kiloton to one megaton yield.
- The 84 warhead was a variable yield kiloton range weapon.
- The estimated yield of the test was less than one kiloton.
- It involved detonation of a 5.3 kiloton device at a depth of.
- It involved detonation of a 5.3 kiloton device at a depth of .
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