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 Translation for 'A-bomb' from English to Slovak
NOUN1   a bomb | bombs
NOUN2   an A-bomb | A-bombs
nukl.voj.zbrane
atómová bomba {f}
A-bomb
voj.zbrane
nastražiť bombu [dok.]
to plant a bomb
odpáliť bombu [dok.]to set off a bomb
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Translation for 'A-bomb' from English to Slovak

A-bomb
atómová bomba {f}nukl.voj.zbrane

to plant a bomb
nastražiť bombu [dok.]voj.zbrane

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to set off a bomb
odpáliť bombu [dok.]
Usage Examples English
  • Agents later discovered a bomb planted under a bridge.
  • On 3 August 1984, ESA's Paris headquarters were severely damaged and six people were hurt when a bomb exploded. It was planted by the far-left armed Action Directe group.
  • In August 1979, Mountbatten was assassinated by a bomb planted aboard his fishing boat in Mullaghmore, County Sligo, Ireland, by members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
  • In nuclear physics, a single stray neutron can result in a prompt critical event, which may finally be energetic enough for a nuclear reactor meltdown or (in a bomb) a nuclear explosion.
  • A bomb exploded at the Sydney Hilton Hotel, the venue for the February 1978 Commonwealth Heads of Government Regional Meeting.

  • A National Hurricane Center satellite specialist, James Lushine, stated "during very unstable weather conditions the downburst of cold air from aloft can hit the surface like a bomb, exploding outward like a giant squall line of wind and water."
  • In May 2010 somebody tried to set off a bomb on Broadway in Time Square.
  • A terrorist bombing was attempted outside the Bank of England building on 4 April 1913. A bomb was discovered smoking and ready to explode next to railings outside the building.
  • The 9-11 commission report stated passengers in cell phone calls reported knives or "box-cutters" were used as weapons (also Mace or a bomb) in hi-jacking airplanes in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States, though the exact design of the knives used is unknown.
  • In teaching laboratories, benzoic acid is a common standard for calibrating a bomb calorimeter.

  • Palmerston's grip on the premiership was weakened by his response to the Orsini affair, in which an attempt was made to assassinate the French Emperor Napoleon III by an Italian revolutionary with a bomb made in Birmingham.
  • On 24 July 2016 a bomb was detonated in a restaurant in the city, killing only the bomber himself and injuring few people.
  • The calls also indicated that Ahmed Al Nami had tied a box around his torso, and claimed there was a bomb inside.
  • Some countries included in the aforementioned laissez-faire distribution could predispose the transfer of nuclear materials or a bomb falling into the hands of groups not affiliated with any governments.
  • On 28 August 1975 the Montoneros planted a bomb in a culvert at the Tucumán air base airstrip.

  • ] bomb, but only if not carrying the rear gunner/radio operator as, even with the Jumo 210D, the Ju 87 was still underpowered for operations with more than a [...] bomb load.
  • In 1994, IKEA ran a commercial in the United States, titled "Dining Room", widely thought to be the first to feature a homosexual couple; it aired for several weeks before being pulled after calls for a boycott and a bomb threat directed at IKEA stores.
  • Fred Reines and Clyde Cowan considered the detection of neutrinos from a bomb prior to their search for reactor neutrinos; a fission reactor was recommended as a better alternative by Los Alamos physics division leader J.M.B.
  • In September 2002, researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory briefly created the first known nuclear critical mass using neptunium in combination with shells of enriched uranium (uranium-235), discovering that the critical mass of a bare sphere of neptunium-237 "ranges from kilogram weights in the high fifties to low sixties," showing that it "is about as good a bomb material as [...]."
  • Some Model 21 and 52 aircraft were converted to "bakusen" (fighter-bombers) by mounting a bomb rack and [...] bomb in place of the centerline drop tank.

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