Then there was a vivid streak in the darkness, and a detonation that was twice repeated, while Austin, who hurled his lump of coal down with all his strength, caught a whiff of acrid smoke.
It fell amidst the brushwood, out of which there sprang a sheet of flame that was followed by a detonation and a great upheaval of flying sand.
The explosion calorimeter is designed to measure the amount of heat given off by the detonation of explosive charges of 100 grammes.
The use of small lead blocks affords another means of determining the rate of detonationor quickness of an explosive.
The difference in the capacity of the cavity before and afterdetonation indicates the enlarging power of the explosive.
The rate at which detonation travels through a given length of an explosive can be measured by an apparatus installed in and near Building No.
The charge is placed in the cavity and prepared for detonation with an electrical exploder and stemming.
On detonation of the charge, a deformation of the lead takes place, the amount of which is due to the quickness of the explosive used (Fig.
There came an ear-splitting detonation from the after-deck, silencing every murmur.
Those in the starboard boats saw her stand on end for full five minutes, screws spinning, before a muffled detonation blew the bowels out of her and sucked her down like a plunging arrow.
It was the crack of a gun, but with that quick sharp report that distinguishes the detonation of the rifle.
The local effect of a detonation is different from the transmitted shock.
All the high explosives are subject to premature detonation by shock; each of them is supposed to have its own peculiar shock to which it is sensitive; but what this shock may be is at present unknown.
The best authenticated composition for melenite consists of picric acid, gun cotton and gum arabic, and lately it is stated that the French have added cresilite to it.
Three minutes later, before the steward had time to bring in the coffee, a terrific detonation caused the "Livingstone" to shake like an aspen leaf.
To the watchers on the submarine the whole fabric of the airship appeared to jump, then, with the slightest perceptible interval following the explosion of the missile, a seconddetonation occurred in the fore-part of the Zeppelin.
Mild surprise gave place to complete astonishment as a heavy shell hurtled overhead, carrying away several of the telegraph wires, and plunged with a terrific detonation into the fortunately unoccupied barracks on the Castle Hill.
There was a shrieking sound like the screech of a high velocity projectile, followed by a detonation so powerful that most of the spectators on the sea-front were deaf for days afterwards.
The forest re-echoed to the sharp detonation of the gun, but not a man of von Harburg's party stirred.
Captain Tarfag was in the middle of lunch when the detonation was heard.
The reports of more than forty pieces speak almost simultaneously, none of them with the dull detonation of cavalry carbines, but the sharper ring of the rifle!
Each detonation reveals together a shaft of red falling fire in what is left of the night, and a column of smoke in what has dawned of the day.
It may hurl itself on you a very long time after the detonation and by incredible paths, passing over the embankment and plunging into the cavities.
The winds blew the cloud resulting from the detonation to the northeast.
In the summer of 1941, the British Government published a report written by the Committee for Military Application of Uranium Detonation (MAUD).
The detonation had a yield of 19 kilotons and left an impression 2.
Office of Scientific Research and Development, viewed thedetonation from a trench at the Base Camp.
Hardly had Roederer pronounced the words when the detonation of an artillery discharge shook the windowpanes of the chamber.
For a long time the detonation of the artillery and the rattle of musketry continued unabated.
A man among the latter also saw the newcomers, for apparently in drunken bravado he flung up a long gun, and there was a flash and a detonationas he fired at random.
There was a detonation and he contrived to fall with a hand on the ground instead of upon the crouching negro with the rifle.
Then a long gun flashed, and the detonation was answered by a sharper, ringing crash.
Nobody saw it, because its puny detonation was instantly wiped out in a blaze of such incredible incandescence that the aluminum paint on jet planes still miles away was scorched and blistered instantly.
Later, it would be found they had slabs of explosive inside their garments, and detonation caps to set them off.
A dense black cloud thrown skywards by the detonation threw such a dark shadow that sunlight gave place to a gloom resembling twilight.
Suddenly a bomb hurtled through the smoke-laden air and exploded with a terrific detonation close to the leading picquet-boat.
Fortunately the principal direction of the detonation was directed skywards, and although fragments of the projectile hurtled past him, Tressidar escaped death or at least serious injury by a hairsbreadth.
But Harris dissuaded him, under the pretext that in these solitudes it was better not to disclose his presence by the detonation of a fire-arm.
Several natives fell, and yells, accompanied by shots, replied to thedetonation of the fire-arms.
Then, had they not yet learned to fear the presence of man, and was this coast so deserted that the detonation of a firearm had never been heard there?
We have no need of hunting to procure food, and no detonation of a fire-arm must announce our presence in this forest.
Although it seemed an interminable period before the expected explosion took place, only a few seconds actually elapsed before the detonation occurred.
Then came the splash of the mark-buoy being hurled overboard to indicate the supposed position of the submarine, followed by the detonation of a "depth-charge".
And at fifty yards the detonation of that double quantity of T.
The manner of using, is to take it by the notched end, and light the square end at the candle, when a sharp detonation ensues.
The ship answered slowly to her helm, however, and before any other action could be taken the torpedo I saw struck the ship's side immediately under the port forward chain plates, the detonation occurring instantly.
