demon core
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.98 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A spherical subcritical mass of plutonium manufactured during World War II by the United States as a fissile core for an early atomic bomb.
noun
Something that is especially dangerous and should not be tampered with, or otherwise reminiscent of the demon core.
Humorous; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "As Mazzocchi saw it, those chemicals that poisoned his union’s rank and file eventually make their way into communities outside — through the air, soil, and waterways. The factory was therefore the demon core of the environmental crisis."
- "That's the demon core of capitalism; you live decades watching companies do what appears to be reasonable, justifiable things and ignore the anti capitalists saying "does this not set a precedent for much more terrifying things?" No, no, ridiculous"
- "California democrats is the demon core of Hitler partials when it comes to homelessness"
- "She's a 'Demon Core' of gay energy. If you drop a screwdriver on one of the piercings, she goes supercritical."
- "Is this the demon core of noodles"
- "That this is like the demon core of edibles, you drop it and a whole city is getting high for years afterward."
Etymology
Referred as such due to its involvement in two fatal criticality accidents at the Los Alamos Laboratory in 1945 and in 1946. In the late 2010s, the circumstances of the second incident were popularized widely by science history videos and internet memes. The noun sense are figuratively derived from the proper noun.
Usage
Inflected Forms
the demon core (canonical)