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Critical mass for a bomb is about 50 kg of (presumably pure or highly enriched) U-235 according to Wikipeda.

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  1. noun An explosive weapon detonated by impact, proximity to an object, a timing mechanism, or other means.
  2. noun An atomic or nuclear bomb. Used with the.
  3. noun Any of various weapons detonated to release destructive material, such as smoke or gas.
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  • The best type of vehicle for use as a bomb is a standard passenger van, although a full-sized sedan with a large trunk may be adequate. —  21-ImprovisedExplosiveDevices
  • The casing for the bomb was a toilet-paper roll wrapped with tar tape. —  The Real Frank Zappa Book
  • For kirby, with a bomb-omb, grab the bomb and run to a character, throw the bomb upwards, making sure that the bomb is above you two, grab the character and if you are familiar with his grab, he shoots upwards.
  • Recently, the TV local anchors led with the word "freeze warning," like a bomb is about to be dropped: "Let's get right to the weather center -- what have you got?" —  OPINION
  • If you want to build an atom bomb, you won't find much relevant information in Torah, but if you want to know, given certain circumstances, if using the bomb is the right thing to do, Science isn't going to provide much help. —  DovBear
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bomb:   bombing ·  bombs ·  bombed
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  1. French bombe, from Italian bomba, probably from Latin bombus, a booming sound, from Greek bombos, of imitative origin.

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  1. from Middle English bomben, bumben, variant forms of bommen, bummen, later bum, later boom: see bum, boom, and cf. bomb, v.
  2. Var. of bum, the earlier form of boom. Cf. bomb, v.
  3. Early modern English also bome, also bombe, bombo, and (simulating boom = bomb) boomb; = German bombe, from French bombe = Spanish Italian bomba, a bomb, from Latin bombus, from Greek βόμβος, a deep hollow sound; prob. imitative, like bomb, boom, bum, bumble, bump, etc. The historical pron. is bum.
  4. from bomb, n.
 

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