Implosion

The act of imploding. Navy analysis of acoustic data detected an anomaly consistent with an implosion or explosion near the Titan around the time it lost communications Sunday a senior Navy official said.

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. The implosion of a light bulb. Adam Savage explains the scientific process of implosion as he tests the principles with which the MythBusters will attempt to implode an entire tanker carD. WEB Strictly speaking an implosion is an event where something collapses inward because the external atmospheric pressure is greater than the internal pressure.

The act or action of bringing to or as if to a center. For example if you pumped the air out of a glass tube it might implode. WEB What is a catastrophic implosion.

The act or process of imploding. A real scientific implosion happens when the pressure inside and outside of an object vary so much that the object is crushed or. When an old building needs to be removed to make way for new structures implosion is often used as a controlled way to destroy it.

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An implosion is the abrupt violent collapse of something large. The opposite of explosion which expands the volume implosion reduces the volume occupied and concentrates matter and energy. WEB Implosion is a process in which objects are destroyed by collapsing or being squeezed in on themselves.

WEB implosion in British English. The action of imploding. An underwater implosion refers to the sudden inward collapse of the vessel which would have been under immense pressure at the depths it was diving toward.

A bursting inward opposed to explosion. The suction or inhalation of breath employed in the pronunciation of an ingressive consonant. This implosion of cultures makes realistic for the first time the.

The act of falling towards the inside with force.

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