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A mushroom cloud is a distinctive mushroom-shaped flammagenitus cloud of debris, smoke, and usually condensed water vapour resulting from a large explosion. The effect is most commonly associated with a nuclear explosion , but any sufficiently energetic detonation or deflagration will produce a similar effect.
Aerial footage from the recycling plant in Oxford which was struck by lightning last night (2 October), shows the damage sustained following the incident. The explosion could be heard up to 20 ...
Trinity's cloud (1945), photographs of mushroom cloud; Video of the site, original blast, and the ranch where the bomb was assembled from 2017; Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. NM-1-A, "White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site", 106 photos, 11 measured drawings, 116 data pages, 8 photo caption pages; Rice, James.
The cumulonimbus flammagenitus cloud (CbFg), also known as the pyrocumulonimbus cloud, is a type of cumulonimbus cloud that forms above a source of heat, such as a wildfire, nuclear explosion, or volcanic eruption, [5] and may sometimes even extinguish the fire that formed it. [6] It is the most extreme manifestation of a flammagenitus cloud.
The explosion of Tsar Bomba, according to the classification of nuclear explosions, was an ultra-high-power low-air nuclear explosion. [citation needed] The mushroom cloud of Tsar Bomba seen from a distance of 161 km (100 mi). The crown of the cloud is 65 km (40 mi) high at the time of the picture. (source: Rosatom State Corporation ...
A bright flash and thunderous sound of a nuclear explosion, featuring footage of a detonation, replaces the blackness. [36] The scene cuts to footage of a mushroom cloud, and then to a final cut of a slowed close-up section of the incandescence in the nuclear explosion. [1]
Nancy Baker Cahill's augmented reality public art work, which launches on Monday of Frieze Week, depicts a mushroom cloud — 'the ultimate symbol of human-caused cataclysm.'
A transient condensation cloud, also called a Wilson cloud, is observable surrounding large explosions in humid air. When a nuclear weapon or high explosive is detonated in sufficiently humid air, the "negative phase" of the shock wave causes a rarefaction of the air surrounding the explosion but not of the air contained within it.