fireball
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To investigate these processes, the team used a plasma flow reactor designed to mimic part of the environment inside a nuclear fireball.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 3, 2026
Footage from the scene shows a fireball at the refinery, with thick smoke billowing out across the city.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
When it does, the agency expects to lose communication for about six minutes as the Orion capsule holding the astronauts is enveloped in a fireball.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
"We've still got two more days, and riding a fireball through the atmosphere is profound as well."
From Barron's ● Apr. 9, 2026
It was a fireball, an explosion of blue-red, and the heat of it singed the tips of his hair and scorched his eyes, so that both he and Mal had to cover their faces.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
A ban on "hulla parties" -- groups deployed to drive elephants away using "fireballs" and burning stakes -- is required, it said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
Most of us have seen photos of the first atomic blasts—the ever-expanding mushroom clouds, the fireballs, the vast devastation—that would end World War II and forever change our lives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Larger incoming objects, such as boulder sized rocks that create especially bright flashes, are known as bolides or fireballs.
From Science Daily ● May 14, 2026
Frantic, he helped his parents hoist his six younger siblings over a backyard fence as fireballs of ignited crude descended around their home, just across the street.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2025
The monsters’ siege tower was still hurling explosive green fireballs into the streets.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
