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volcanic bomb

noun

  1. See bomb

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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It would be reasonable to hear the term “volcanic bomb” and presuppose that such an object tends to explode.

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But a specific type of volcanic bomb rarely lives up to the second half of its name: These objects get blasted into the air, crash into the ground and disappointingly fail to detonate.

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They can't calculate the trajectory of every volcanic bomb.

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The same force that would throw a volcanic bomb a mile high on the earth could throw it six miles high on the moon.

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