In China it was a baby sitting on a railroad platform, smudged, blood-specked, with the village burning about him and shells exploding.

This contributed to the horrendous Ottoman and Egyptian casualty figures, as many men were trapped in burning or exploding vessels.

Ammunition and exploding bombs added to the conflagration, as did burning fuel spewing from shattered fuel pipes.

The attacks are said by those affected to feel like stabbing electric shocks, burning, pressing, crushing, exploding or shooting pain that becomes intractable.

While returning to his company, he saved three occupants of a burning carrier which was in danger of exploding.

Classic examples include the Table of Death, Houdini's Chinese Water Torture Cell, Princess Tenko's escape from an exploding boat and the Upside Down Suspended Straitjacket escape, in which a performer is suspended high in the air from a burning rope.

The preponderance of sulfur-32 is explained by its production from carbon-12 plus successive fusion capture of five helium nuclei, in the so-called alpha process of exploding type II supernovae ( see silicon burning ).

With the PETN exploding at a rate of approximately 4 miles per second, any common length of det cord appears to explode instantaneously.

During this chase, at approximately 4. 26 pm another of Beatty's battlecruisers, the Queen Mary, suffered the same fate as the Indefatigable, exploding and sinking with the loss of all but nine of her crew of 1, 275 men.

Cherry Bombs ( also known as Globe Salutes or Kraft Salutes ) are approximately spherical shaped exploding fireworks, ranging in size from three-quarters-inch to one-and-one-half-inch ( 1. 9 cm to 3. 8 cm ) in diameter.

On January 17, the magazines were ignited, exploding approximately 100, 00 pounds of powder ( reports at the time state that the blast could be heard as far as 100 miles away in Fayetteville ).

The energy released during the main event was equivalent to approximately 1, 114 nuclear weapons exploding.

A jacket of natural < sup > 197 </ sup > Au, irradiated by the intense high-energy neutron flux from an exploding thermonuclear weapon, would transmute into the radioactive isotope < sup > 198 </ sup > Au with a half-life of 2. 697 days and produce approximately. 411 MeV of gamma radiation, significantly increasing the radioactivity of the weapon's fallout for several days.

A jacket of < sup > 75 </ sup > As, irradiated by the intense high-energy neutron flux from an exploding thermonuclear weapon, would transmute into the radioactive isotope < sup > 76 </ sup > As with a half-life of 1. 0778 days and produce approximately 1. 13 MeV of gamma radiation, significantly increasing the radioactivity of the weapon's fallout for several hours.

A jacket of isotopically enriched < sup > 64 </ sup > Zn, irradiated by the intense high-energy neutron flux from an exploding thermonuclear weapon, would transmute into the radioactive isotope < sup > 65 </ sup > Zn with a half-life of 244 days and produce approximately 1. 115 MeV of gamma radiation, significantly increasing the radioactivity of the weapon's fallout for several days.

It also opened up many doors of ministry for Synan and he became a frequently invited guest on such television programs as The PTL Club, Trinity Broadcasting Network, and The 700 Club to discuss the Renewal that was occurring among Catholics and the exploding growth of Pentecostalism around the world.

The Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns after exploding in April 2010.

The first damaged the runway at Balikpapan airport, the second set the British oil tanker on fire and sank her and the third bounced off the British tanker without exploding.

As the most heavily defended industrial target in Europe, Leuna would become so dark from flak, German smoke pots, and exploding oil tanks that " we had no idea how close our bombs came to the target.

Many objects such as traffic cones, parking meters, fire hydrants and exploding oil drums can be hit or damaged with attacks in order to help defeat nearby enemies.

A small portion of exploding gas also escapes through the vent, but this does not dramatically affect the total force exerted on the ball.

A bomb also struck the Lords Chamber, but went through the floor without exploding.

The Huolongjing text of the 14th century also describes hollow, gunpowder-packed exploding cannonballs.

Speedy also has several other arrows ranging from sleeping gas arrows, exploding arrows, and regular arrows.

Townshend has also attributed the start of his hearing loss to Keith Moon's famous exploding drum set during The Who's 1967 appearance on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.

It also reports that there were indiscriminate attacks designed to cause extensive civilian casualties: derailing trains, exploding bombs in markets, restaurants, and other civilian areas between Delhi and Punjab.

Thom Yorke also referenced electronic dance music, saying the song was " an attempt to capture that exploding beat sound where you're at the club and the PA's so loud, you know it's doing damage ".

But the lithium-6 isotope is also the raw material for tritium production, and an exploding bomb is a nuclear reactor.

Executives were also asking for the removal of more violent scenes, such as the exploding cow and the shooting of an Iraqi woman.

The " exploding helmets " gimmick was also used at various times in the 1980s and 1990s during the pre-game tease.

A Warrant Officer took the Shoulder Gun down to a firing range, aimed it at an armoured target, and pulled the trigger ; the Shoulder Gun pierced a hole in the target, but unfortunately also wounded the Warrant Officer when a piece of metal from the exploding round flew back and hit him.

The exploding double layer was also suggested by Alfvén as a possible mechanism for the generation of cosmic rays ,< ref > Hannes Alfvén, Cosmic plasma.

The Muppet Show opening, with Gonzo swinging at the " O " in Muppet Show, and having bad things happen ( i. e. breaking the " O " or the gong-beater exploding ) might also be a parody.

The exploding-bridgewire detonator ( EBW, also known as exploding wire detonator ) is a type of detonator used to initiate the detonation reaction in explosive materials, similar to a blasting cap in that it is fired using an electric current.

The authors assumed that this process was solely responsible for the p-nuclei and proposed that it occurs in the hydrogen-shell ( see also stellar evolution ) of a star exploding as a type II supernova.

Étienne is portrayed as a hard-working idealist but also a naïve youth ; Zola's genetic theories come into play as Étienne is presumed to have inherited his Macquart ancestors ' traits of hotheaded impulsiveness and an addictive personality capable of exploding into rage under the influence of drink or strong passions.

The aircraft also struck a highway light pole near its wing root, igniting the wing fuel tank, before skidding onto the airfield in Irving, colliding with two 4-million US gallon ( 15, 000 m³ ) water tanks and exploding into flames.

Walas had also created the exploding gremlin in the microwave by means of a balloon that was allowed to burst.

The auto manufacturer in the film also utilizes a " bean-counting " approach to risk management, whereby the projections of actuaries for probable deaths and injured car-owners is weighed against the cost of re-tooling and re-manufacturing the car without the defect ( exploding gas tanks ) with the resulting decision to keep the car as-is to positively benefit short term profitability.

Gottlieb also hatched schemes to assassinate Castro, including the use of a poisoned cigar, a poisoned wetsuit, an exploding conch shell, and a poisonous fountain pen.

The next year the team broke the same record with 1. 6 million visitors to Comiskey Park with the addition of the first " exploding scoreboard " in the major leagues – producing electrical and sound effects, and shooting fireworks whenever the White Sox hit a home run, and also began adding players ' surnames on the back of their uniform, a practice now standard by 25 of 30 clubs on all jerseys, and by three more clubs on road jerseys.

When Riddick was mentally probed by the Quasi-Dead of the Necromongers, he not only resisted them, but also retaliated, the Quasi-Dead's containers actually exploding from the strain of trying to process Riddick.

There is also a Fire button for shooting, a button to activate a smart bomb, a button to turn on the Inviso cloaking device, and a hyperspace button which teleports the player to a random position in the level, at a risk of either exploding upon rematerialization, or materializing onto an enemy or enemy projectile.

There have also been examples of spontaneously exploding whales.