fuel-air explosive

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Definition
  1. Noun:
    • A type of explosive weapon: A device that uses a two-stage process to create a large blast. First, it disperses a fuel cloud into the air. Second, it ignites that cloud, causing a powerful explosion and fireball over a wide area.
Usage Examples
  • Noun:
    • The military used a fuel-air explosive to clear the minefield.
    • The destructive power of a fuel-air explosive comes from its combination of blast and thermal effects.
Advanced Usage
  • Technical Context: Often referred to by the acronym FAE or terms like thermobaric weapon or vacuum bomb, which describe its mechanism of creating a high-pressure blast wave by consuming oxygen from the surrounding air.
    • The FAE creates a significant overpressure, destroying structures over a large radius.
Variants and Related Words
  • Thermobaric weapon (n): A broader category of explosive that uses oxygen from the surrounding air to generate a sustained, high-temperature explosion; a fuel-air explosive is a type of thermobaric weapon.
  • Vacuum bomb (n): An informal term for a fuel-air explosive, referring to the partial vacuum created after the blast wave passes.
Synonyms
  • Thermobaric explosive: An explosive that utilizes atmospheric oxygen.
  • Aerosol bomb: A device that detonates a dispersed fuel aerosol.
Related Phrases
  • Blast wave: The shock wave produced by the detonation of a fuel-air explosive.
  • Overpressure: The pressure, exceeding normal atmospheric pressure, created by the blast of a fuel-air explosive.
Noun
  1. a device consisting of a container of fuel and two explosive charges; the first charge bursts open the fuel container at a predetermined height and spreads the fuel in a cloud that mixes with atmospheric oxygen; the second charge detonates the cloud which creates an enormous blast wave and incinerates whatever is below

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