When, for example, an explosion blows a hole in a rock wall, the GeoMod technology creates an " empty space " object which is the approximate size and shape of the explosion.

The explosion blows four passengers, all Americans and one of them a nine-month-old baby, out of the plane and they fall to their deaths ; the rapid decompression of the cabin that follows injures seven other passengers, and the aircraft makes an emergency landing.

A Controlled explosion | controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance blows a crater into the earth at the Air Force Retained Area of the Badlands Bombing Range ( October 3, 2011 )

* December 8 – Lightning strikes the Pan American World Airways Boeing 707-121 Clipper Tradewind, operating as Flight 214, igniting fuel vapor and causing an explosion which blows part of the left wing off the aircraft.

The resulting explosion blows her off of her seat and enrages Skinner.

The tanks are immune to enemy bullets, but have a limited supply of fuel and will sustain damage when it runs out or the tank is caught in an explosion, taking the player with it unless he can exit the tank and get clear before it blows up.

An explosion on the US Navy aircraft carrier Lexington, damaged by a Japanese carrier air attack on 8 May, blows an aircraft off the deck into the sea.

Bugs twice blows out Sam's match as he's trying to light a cannonball ( the second time with an extended pipe ), but the third time ( even though Sam takes the precaution of going even further away from the tree than the second attempt ) results in Sam taking an explosion.

A failure of fire tubes forces large volumes of high pressure, high temperature steam back down the fire tubes in a fraction of a second and often blows the burners off the front of the boiler, whereas a failure of the pressure vessel surrounding the water would lead to a full and entire evacuation of the boiler's contents in a large steam explosion.

The conical shape of the filler concentrates the force of the explosion into a hot jet that blows its way through the armor.

The explosion destroyed a vehicle parked across the street, and causes significant damage to the 11-story Turkish Center, and blows out the windows of nearby buildings, including B ' nai B ' rith, Chase Manhattan Bank, the African American Center, a travel agency and numerous apartment complexes.

The resulting explosion blows Carl into a supermarket, where he finds that the flesh of his hands and face have been torn away, revealing robotic parts like those of the old woman.

And just before he is defeated, Rhino charges at Spider-Man one last time, escapes the laser field but accidentally rams into a gas station that blows up and knocks him several blocks away from the explosion, where Doc Ock takes his unconscious form.

Nickel-iron meteorites with sufficient kinetic energy to produce large terrestrial explosion craters may nevertheless melt only small quantities of material.

Mrs. Pankowski, 61, remained in Holy Cross Hospital as a result of the explosion, which occurred while Mrs. Kowalski fueled a cook stove in the grandmother's small upstairs flat at 2274 Eight Mile Road East.

alt = A person adds a small amount of metal to a petri dish with cold water which produces a small explosion.

This killed Dutch freelance photographer Fernando Pereira, who thought it was safe to enter the boat to get his photographic material after a first small explosion, but drowned as a result of a second, larger explosion.

The Zulu impi is popularly identified with the ascent of Shaka ( also rendered T ' chaka ), ruler of the relatively small Zulu tribe before its explosion across the landscape of southern Africa, but its earliest shape as a purposeful instrument of statecraft lies in the innovations of the Mwetha chieftain Dingiswayo, according to some historians ( Morris 1965 ).

According to Ağca, the plan was for him and the back-up gunman Oral Çelik to open fire in St. Peter's Square and escape to the Bulgarian embassy under the cover of the panic generated by a small explosion.

For example, the Chernobyl disaster involved a runaway chain reaction but the result was a low-powered steam explosion from the relatively small release of heat, as compared with a bomb.

A very diverse collection of life forms appeared around 544 Ma, starting in the latest Precambrian with a poorly understood small shelly fauna and ending in the very early Cambrian with a very diverse, and quite modern Burgess fauna, the rapid radiation of forms called the Cambrian explosion of life.

Assuming that a TNT explosion releases 1, 000 small ( thermochemical ) calories per gram ( 4. 2 kJ / g ), one tonne of TNT is equivalent to 4. 2 gigajoules.

Anti-aliased rendering, combined with Adobe applications ability to zoom in to read small type, further combined with the now open PostScript Type 1 font format, provided the impetus for an explosion in font design, and desktop publishing of newspapers and magazines.

Around 11: 18 local time ( 08: 18 UTC ), a small craft approached the port side of the destroyer, and an explosion occurred, creating a 40-by-40-foot gash in the ship's port side, according to the memorial plate to those who lost their lives.

The mortar shell would then return to earth and create a small but incredibly powerful explosion.

:: Note: The physical fully connected mesh topology is generally too costly and complex for practical networks, although the topology is used when there are only a small number of nodes to be interconnected ( see Combinatorial explosion ).

Although these tests did not produce a thermonuclear detonation, they showed that a small fusion component could significantly enhance a fission explosion.

Static discharge from charged toner particles can ignite dust in the vacuum cleaner bag or create a small explosion if sufficient toner is airborne.

An object is represented as if there had been a small controlled explosion emanating from the middle of the object, causing the object's parts to be separated relative distances away from their original locations.

Due to the inefficiency of early nuclear weapons, only a small amount of the nuclear material would be consumed during the explosion.

The Goiânia incident to some extent predicts the contamination pattern if it is not immediately realized that the explosion spread radioactive material, but also how fatal even very small amounts of ingested radioactive powder can be.

Now, since the inception of the National Lottery, it is not only legal but also a small contributor to the British economy, with a recent explosion of interest with regard to the international gaming sector industry.

These extra neutrons implied a high probability that a gun-type bomb with plutonium would detonate too early, before a critical mass was formed, scattering the plutonium and producing a small " fizzle " of a nuclear explosion many times smaller than a full explosion.

The detonated shell released only a small amount of sarin gas, either because the explosion failed to mix the binary agents properly or because the chemicals inside the shell had degraded significantly with age.

The result is a hot plasma, and a very small " explosion " compared to the minimum size bomb that would be required to instead create the necessary amount of fission.

They immediately lowered their topsails, but it came up so fast upon them, that, before they could raise the main tack, they observed the ball rise almost perpendicularly, and not above forty or fifty yards from the main chains when it went off with an explosion, as great as if a hundred cannons had been discharged at the same time, leaving behind it a strong sulphurous smell.

Just before the explosion, the ball seemed to be the size of a large mill-stone.

From its very first appearance in Series 2, The Pit included a small pyrotechnic " explosion " that formed a large ball of white smoke.

Explosive belts are usually packed with ball bearings, nails, screws, bolts, and other objects that serve as shrapnel to maximize the number of casualties in the explosion.

Also, the ASMD Shock Rifle's secondary fire is said to be a ball of seeded plasma whose EM field contains anti-photons ; shooting the field with the photon beam of the primary fire causes the photons of the beam and the anti-photons of the ball to mutually annihilate each other in a violent explosion.

The highest level of attack, called " burst end ," focuses and compresses the fire tengeki into a ball that causes an enormous explosion when hit against something.

The television visual effect of the magic instant transformation behind the ball of light and explosion was more convenient for the television continuity.

This was one of six Fire Fly class locomotives named with a fire theme-the term fire ball refers to an explosion of fire.

The all-ways fuze had a minor design defect in that the hard steel ball bearing would be propelled away from the explosion as a piece of shrapnel.

One survivor described the explosion as, " just a big ball of flame coming straight towards us, like a great nuclear mushroom cloud whooshing up everything in its path ".

Rudd, along with other prominent members of Weather, went underground in March 1970 following the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion, an incident in which three members of the organization died when an explosive device, intended for a servicemen's ball, detonated prematurely.

In the DVD release, when Sam throws the ball at Elvira's head, more explosion is shown as Elvira's head completely shatters from her shoulders and shows her headless body wander directly from the wall around the living room, spurting blood and then cuts back to Sam watching in amazement as the body comes to rest on the floor.

When the Americans shot a heated cannon ball into the fort, it struck the magazine and set off a huge explosion.

Tommy and Jason punched the monster in ball mode at the same time, causing an explosion which reverted Soccadillo to monster form.

#* positive divergence of the acceleration vector ( e. g., outward pointing acceleration due to a spherically symmetric explosion, or more prosaically, due to body forces on fluid elements in a ball of fluid held together by its own self-gravitation ).