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How to sign: a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction
Similiar / Same: detonation, blowup
Categories: discharge
Within this category: airburst, backfire, big bang, blast, blowback, fragmentation, inflation
How to sign: the act of exploding or bursting something
"the explosion of the firecrackers awoke the children"; "the burst of an atom bomb creates enormous radiation aloft";
Similiar / Same: burst
Categories: change of integrity
Within this category: detonation, fulmination