backfire a miscalculation that recoils on its maker
big bang (cosmology) the cosmic explosion that is hypothesized to have marked the origin of the universe
blowback,
backfire misinformation resulting from the recirculation into the source country of disinformation previously planted abroad by that country's intelligence service
fragmentation the scattering of bomb fragments after the bomb explodes
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detonation -
An explosion or sudden report made by the near-instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances as, the detonation of gun cotton. Specifically, combustion that spreads supersonically via shockcompression.
Detonation involves an supersonic exothermic front accelerating through a medium that eventually drives a shock front propagating directly in front of it. They are observed in both conventional solid and liquid explosives, as well as in reactive gases. The velocity of detonations in solid and liquid explosives is much higher than that in gaseous ones, which allows far clearer resolution of the wave system in the latter.
