Sentences with phrase «initial explosion»

BP's response to the initial explosion progressed from denying the existence of a spill to admitting to a small amount of leaking oil, to finally acknowledging the estimates by outside experts of an underwater geyser.

So the bounced waves can catch up with the ones created in the initial explosion as they spread outward and sideways above the ground.

The initial explosion at Husky Energy's oil refinery in Superior took place in the fluid catalytic cracking unit, a senior advisor with the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board said Tuesday.

The present most widely accepted theory of the origin of the universe — that of the hot big bang — claims that most of the helium is the product of the big bang itself and occurred within the very first minute of the existence of the expanding universe, and that the background radiation which is now being studied so intensively provides some evidence of the date of this initial explosion.

There was also a huge amount of dust kicked up into the air and the initial explosion itself.

I like Guice, but, I don't see the initial explosion in him.

Just not his initial explosion & get - off at the snap.

Theorists believe the initial explosion powers an expanding spherical shock wave that crashes into the surrounding gas at nearly the speed of light.

After the initial explosion in the sky, two larger chunks of rock survived and continued plunging through the atmosphere.

The initial explosion carried an energy equivalent to about 500 kilotonnes of TNT.

After the initial explosion and uncontained release of oil, researchers observed a phenomenon that had not been seen before: More than 40 percent of the oil, combined with an introduced chemical dispersant, was retained in a plume nearly 100 miles long at this great depth.

As the shockwave from the initial explosion radiated out into space, it produced bright glowing rings of material, as seen in earlier observations with the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

That initial explosion released, in 15 seconds, more energy than the sun will release in its entire, 10 - billion - year lifetime.

About 400,000 years after the initial explosion, the primordial soup of high energy particles cooled down to become a neutral hydrogen gas.

It is that afterglow that is revealing details of the fireball created by the initial explosion.

Importing should be a breeze now that the initial explosion has died down.

Considering that not everything had been blown out the windows in the initial explosion, this seemed more than a bit strange.

Day after day for a span of 10 months, a torrent of oil rushed into the Gulf of Mexico after the initial explosion near the Yucatan Peninsula.

Considering that not everything had been blown out the windows in the initial explosion, this seemed more than a bit strange.

Where the initial explosion occurred a large crater was left behind in the street.