Implosion

Adam Savage explains the scientific process of implosion as he tests the principles with which the MythBusters will attempt to implode an entire tanker carD. The act of falling towards the inside with force.

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. A real scientific implosion happens when the pressure inside and outside of an object vary so much that the object is crushed or. The act or process of imploding. Im- ploh-zh uhn show ipa.

An implosion is the abrupt violent collapse of something large. This implosion of cultures makes realistic for the first time the. An underwater implosion refers to the sudden inward collapse of the vessel which would have been under immense pressure at the depths it was diving toward.

The implosion of a light bulb. The opposite of explosion which expands the volume implosion reduces the volume occupied and concentrates matter and energy. Navy analysis of acoustic data detected an anomaly consistent with an implosion or explosion near the Titan around the time it lost communications Sunday a senior Navy official said.

When an old building needs to be removed to make way for new structures implosion is often used as a controlled way to destroy it. WEB implosion in British English. WEB A US.

The suction or inhalation of breath employed in the pronunciation of an ingressive consonant. A bursting inward opposed to explosion. WEB What is a catastrophic implosion.

For example if you pumped the air out of a glass tube it might implode. A situation in which something fails. The act of imploding.

WEB Implosion is a process in which objects are destroyed by collapsing or being squeezed in on themselves. The action of imploding. WEB Strictly speaking an implosion is an event where something collapses inward because the external atmospheric pressure is greater than the internal pressure.

The act or action of bringing to or as if to a center.

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