The constellations locked, and an explosive shock wave rocked the pyramid.

He did research on explosive shock waves, the effects of explosives and he developed new explosives.

Mechanical closures then intercepted and sealed the pipe, preventing the explosive shock wave from damaging the targets.

Other industrial synthesis methods, again borrowed from diamond growth, use crystal growth in a temperature gradient, or explosive shock wave.

Explosive shock waves can cause situations such as body displacement (i.e., people being thrown through the air), dismemberment, internal bleeding and ruptured eardrums.

This term is used to describe an explosive phenomenon whereby the decomposition is propagated by an explosive shock wave traversing the explosive material.

The explosive shock waves meet in the center of the tool and combine to produce a very high energy wave capable of cutting through the thickest of pipe.

It is formed at high temperatures and high pressures, e.g., by application of an explosive shock wave to a mixture of diamond and cubic boron nitride.

This shape was also the configuration of the lenses used for focusing the explosive shock waves of the detonators in both the gadget and Fat Man atomic bombs.

Just as heat can cause expanding air in the lungs, the explosive shock wave created by lightning (the cause of "thunder") can cause concussive and auditory injury at extremely close range.

In fission weapons, the explosive shock waves used to compress a plutonium core will also cause a transition from the usual delta phase plutonium to the denser alpha form, significantly helping to achieve supercriticality.

In order to accomplish the compression, the high explosive system had to be carefully designed as a series of explosive lenses which used alternating fast- and slow-burning explosives to shape the explosive shock wave into the desired spherical shape.

Just days after the 1991 elections, members of the New York metropolitan region's Congressional delegation are already looking warily toward 1992, keenly aware that the voters' apparently conflicting messages - rising demands for expensive services and continued pressure for major tax relief - confront them with a potentially explosive shock wave.

He can use this blast-field for the following effects: to function as a personal shield or extending it to encompass others, to shape the field around another person to imprison them, or to absorb outside kinetic impact into his own energy supply, enabling him to increase the bludgeoning power of his blows or to create explosive shock waves upon impact.