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  2. Gas explosion - Wikipedia

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    A gas explosion is the ignition of a mixture of air and flammable gas, typically from a gas leak. [1] In household accidents, the principal explosive gases are those used for heating or cooking purposes such as natural gas , methane , propane , butane .

  3. Skyquake - Wikipedia

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    The solar wind's equivalent of a sonic boom in the solar-system plasma medium can accelerate protons up to millions of miles per minute – as much as 40 percent of the speed of light. [ citation needed ] This is a proven source of auroras , but has never yet been shown to be sufficiently forceful and sufficiently abrupt to cause a "boom".

  4. Explosion - Wikipedia

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    Explosion of unserviceable ammunition and other military items The explosion of the Castle Bravo nuclear bomb. An explosion is a rapid expansion in volume of a given amount of matter associated with an extreme outward release of energy , usually with the generation of high temperatures and release of high-pressure gases .

  5. Argon flash - Wikipedia

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    Argon flash, also known as argon bomb, argon flash bomb, argon candle, and argon light source, is a single-use source of very short and extremely bright flashes of light. The light is generated by a shock wave in argon or, less commonly, another noble gas. The shock wave is usually produced by an explosion. Argon flash devices are almost ...

  6. Creeslough explosion - Wikipedia

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    The Creeslough explosion occurred on 7 October 2022 at an apartment above Applegreen petrol station in Creeslough, a village in north County Donegal, Ireland. It killed ten people and left eight hospitalised; the highest number of civilian casualties in the county in decades.

  7. Twilight phenomenon - Wikipedia

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    A twilight phenomenon (seen from the Louisiana-24 Long Range Tracking Telescope site in northern Santa Barbara county) lights up the night sky over Vandenberg Air Force Base following the launch of a Minuteman III missile September 19, 2002 (Official USAF Photo by Dennis Fisher, 30th Communications Squadron) The twilight phenomenon caused by freezing unspent fuel from a Minotaur I launch at ...

  8. Dust explosion - Wikipedia

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    The series of coal dust explosions within a mine rocked the close-knit township and was audible as far as 30 kilometres (19 mi) away. Benxihu Colliery explosion: April 26, 1942: Benxi, Liaoning Manchukuo (now China) coal dust and gas: 1,549: 34% of the miners working that day were killed. This is the world's worst-ever coal-mining accident.

  9. Gas lighting - Wikipedia

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    Gas lighting in the historical center of Wrocław, Poland, is manually turned off and on daily.. Gas lighting is the production of artificial light from combustion of a fuel gas such as methane, propane, butane, acetylene, ethylene, hydrogen, carbon monoxide, coal gas (town gas) or natural gas.