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thermobaric weapon

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.56 in modern English

Syllables
ther-mo-bar-ic weapon
IPA
31
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
4
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A weapon of a class of bombs, which causes a large explosion, with effects similar to a nuclear blast, by having an explosion, flash of heat, shockwave, producing a vacuum, and vacuum collapse pressure wave. Typically produced by aerosolizing a fuel throughout the air, and setting it alight, producing a detonation, that consumes all the oxygen in the region.

Etymology

From being a weapon which produces heat (“thermo-”) and pressure (“baric”).

Inflected Forms

thermobaric weapons (plural)

Synonyms

aerosol bomb FAE fuel-air explosive poor-man's nuke vacuum bomb

Questions

What does thermobaric weapon mean?
A weapon of a class of bombs, which causes a large explosion, with effects similar to a nuclear blast, by having an explosion, flash of heat, shockwave, producing a vacuum, and vacuum collapse pressure wave. Typically produced by aerosolizing a fuel throughout the air, and setting it alight, producing a detonation, that consumes all the oxygen in the region.
Where does thermobaric weapon come from?
From being a weapon which produces heat (“thermo-”) and pressure (“baric”).

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