Explosion vs Blowback - What's the difference?
explosion | blowback |
A violent release of energy (sometimes mechanical, nuclear, or chemical.)
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The sound of an explosion.
A sudden uncontrolled increase.
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A sudden outburst.
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, title= (firearms) A type of action where the pressure from the fired cartridge blows a sliding mechanism backward to extract the fired cartridge, chamber another cartridge, and cock the hammer.
An unintended adverse result, especially of a political action.
(slang) The act of shotgunning (inhaling from a pipe etc. and exhaling into another smoker's mouth).
As nouns the difference between explosion and blowback
is that explosion is explosion while blowback is (firearms) a type of action where the pressure from the fired cartridge blows a sliding mechanism backward to extract the fired cartridge, chamber another cartridge, and cock the hammer.explosion
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(en noun)Chico Harlan
Japan pockets the subsidy …, passage=Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion ."}}
- As with the Lejeuneaceae, this pattern of massive speciation appears to be correlated with the Cretaceous explosion of the angiosperms and the simultaneous creation of a host of new microenvironments, differing in humidity, light intensity, texture, etc.
Can China clean up fast enough?, passage=All this has led to an explosion of protest across China, including among a middle class that has discovered nimbyism. That worries the government, which fears that environmental activism could become the foundation for more general political opposition. It is therefore dealing with pollution in two ways—suppression and mitigation.}}