Sentences with phrase «air blast»

INSIDE the glider high above the snow - capped Andes of Patagonia, a rush of air blasted from a canister.

US forces in Afghanistan dropped the GBU - 43 / B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb, whose acronym has inspired the nickname «Mother of All Bombs,» over the Achin district of Afghanistan's Nangarhar province, which borders northwest Pakistan.

Melosh, who wasn't involved in the study, added that the findings «lead one to appreciate the role of air blasts in asteroid impacts as we saw in Chelyabinsk.»

Milder winters in the Midwest have been occurring because there have been fewer and less extreme Arctic air blasts into the Midwest.

A 600 mph air blast (top left) immediately followed the impact, shredding nearby animals and vegetation.

M: The three major effects — thermal radiation, which arrives first, then seismic shaking and ejecta, and finally air blasts.

Infrasonic waves, with frequencies much lower than an audible voice, can be generated by sources as diverse as volcanoes, earthquakes, rocket launches and meteor air blasts.

Suddenly, high - pressure bursts of air blast up and down the body, tousling hair, ruffling collars, and evincing giggles.

During this process, which lasts just seconds, high - pressure air blasts the surface of the glass from an array of nozzles in varying positions.

The bomb, the Massive Ordnance Air Blast, whose acronym inspired the nickname «Mother of All Bombs,» is the largest nonnuclear bomb in the US's arsenal.

The final two effects travel close together, but the air blast goes much farther.

Not all structures are created equally, though, and you may want to move after the air blast has passed.

The GBU - 43 / B Massive Ordnance Air Blast, sometimes grimly called the «Mother of All Bombs» because of its acronym, was loaded onto a pallet, flown in a C - 130 cargo plane, then dragged out the back of the plane — pallet included — by a parachute.

Our inspection solutions include x-ray inspection machines which suit various applications within the food industry and integrate with your existing infeed, outfeed conveyors or reject systems, from air blast to push bar and much more.

An air blast from the equipment can reject bad raisins.

An air blast from the event flattened the forest in the valley below, moved 2 million cubic meters of material and killed about 200 people.

At low altitudes, about half the energy of such a bomb is released in the air blast, 35 percent as heat and 15 percent as nuclear radiation.

«There's no way to translate the actual energy from an air blast into seismometers,» Bellini said.

Many deliver a startle scare by triggering one of your senses with different sounds, air blasts, and even smells that sets off your fear response, but your brain soon realizes these aren't real threats, and you immediately start laughing and smiling.