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Definition of megaton in English: megaton(also megatonne) noun ˈmɛɡətʌnˈmɛɡəˌtən A unit of explosive power chiefly used for nuclear weapons, equivalent to one million tons of TNT. 兆吨（主要用于计算核武器爆炸力的单位，相当于100万吨梯恩梯炸药） H-bombs of fifteen megatons each 每个爆炸力为15兆吨的氢弹。 Example sentencesExamples - Nearby in Balaclava (yes, the hat is named after this place - look it up), a submarine base is cut out of the side of a mountain, making it invisible to surveillance and able to withstand a 10 megaton nuclear explosion.
- Some news accounts warned that its explosive force upon impact would be 350,000 megatons, eight million times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb.
- Were the asteroid to hit Earth, it would enter the atmosphere at nearly 103,000 km/h and strike with the explosive energy of 1.2 million megatons of TNT.
- The largest weapon of this kind known to have been tested was estimated to be a 58 megaton (58 million tonnes of TNT) device produced by the Soviet Union during the height of the cold war.
- The blast, called a solar flare, was equal to one million megatons of TNT and gave off powerful bursts of X-rays.
Definition of megaton in US English: megaton(also MT) nounˈmɛɡəˌtənˈmeɡəˌtən A unit of explosive power chiefly used for nuclear weapons, equivalent to one million tons of TNT. 兆吨（主要用于计算核武器爆炸力的单位，相当于100万吨梯恩梯炸药） H-bombs of fifteen megatons each 每个爆炸力为15兆吨的氢弹。 Example sentencesExamples - Some news accounts warned that its explosive force upon impact would be 350,000 megatons, eight million times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb.
- The blast, called a solar flare, was equal to one million megatons of TNT and gave off powerful bursts of X-rays.
- The largest weapon of this kind known to have been tested was estimated to be a 58 megaton (58 million tonnes of TNT) device produced by the Soviet Union during the height of the cold war.
- Nearby in Balaclava (yes, the hat is named after this place - look it up), a submarine base is cut out of the side of a mountain, making it invisible to surveillance and able to withstand a 10 megaton nuclear explosion.
- Were the asteroid to hit Earth, it would enter the atmosphere at nearly 103,000 km/h and strike with the explosive energy of 1.2 million megatons of TNT.
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