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Clean bomb   /klin bɑm/   Listen
Clean bomb

noun
1.
An atom bomb leaving little or no radioactive contamination.





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"Clean bomb" Quotes from Famous Books



... was a nice, clean bomb. Nothing but helium, radiation, and heat. In the early nineteen fifties, such a bomb had been constructed by surrounding the LiH with a fission bomb—the so-called "implosion" technique. But all that heavy metal around the central reaction created all kinds of radioactive residues ...
— Unwise Child • Gordon Randall Garrett


Words linked to "Clean bomb" :   atom bomb, atomic bomb, fission bomb, A-bomb, plutonium bomb


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