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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COBALT BOMB

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Cobalt bomb is a noun.
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WHAT DOES COBALT BOMB MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cobalt bomb

A cobalt bomb is a theoretical type of "salted bomb": a nuclear weapon designed to produce enhanced amounts of radioactive fallout, intended to contaminate a large area with radioactive material. The concept of a cobalt bomb was originally described in a radio program by physicist Leó Szilárd on February 26, 1950. He suggested that an arsenal of cobalt bombs would be capable of destroying all human life on Earth. As far as is publicly known, no cobalt bombs have ever been built. The Operation Antler/Round 1 test by the British at the Tadje site in the Maralinga range in Australia on September 14, 1957 tested a bomb using cobalt pellets as a radiochemical tracer for estimating yield. This was considered a failure and the experiment was not repeated.

Definition of cobalt bomb in the English dictionary

The definition of cobalt bomb in the dictionary is a cobalt-60 device used in radiotherapy. Other definition of cobalt bomb is a nuclear weapon consisting of a hydrogen bomb encased in cobalt, which releases large quantities of radioactive cobalt-60 into the atmosphere.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COBALT BOMB

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cobalamin
cobalt
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cobalt blue
cobaltic
cobaltiferous
cobaltine
cobaltite
cobaltous
cobb
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Cobbett
cobbing
cobble
cobbled

WORDS THAT END LIKE COBALT BOMB

atom bomb
atomic bomb
bath bomb
bomb
car bomb
cherry bomb
cluster bomb
dirty bomb
hydrogen bomb
like a bomb
logic bomb
neutron bomb
nuclear bomb
petrol bomb
pipe bomb
smart bomb
smoke bomb
stink bomb
the bomb
time bomb
water bomb

Synonyms and antonyms of cobalt bomb in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «cobalt bomb» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COBALT BOMB

Find out the translation of cobalt bomb to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cobalt bomb from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cobalt bomb» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

钴弹
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

bomba de cobalto
570 millions of speakers

English

cobalt bomb
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कोबाल्ट बम
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

قنبلة الكوبالت
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

бомба кобальта
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cobalto bomba
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কোবল্ট বোমা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bombe au cobalt
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bom kobalt
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kobaltbombe
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

コバルト爆弾
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

코발트 폭탄
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bom kobalt
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bom coban
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கோபால்ட் குண்டு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कोबाबाट बम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kobalt bombası
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

bomba al cobalto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

bomba kobaltowa
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

бомба кобальту
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cobalt bombă
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

κοβάλτιο βόμβα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kobalt bom
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

kobolt bomb
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kobolt bombe
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cobalt bomb

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COBALT BOMB»

The term «cobalt bomb» is used very little and occupies the 185.577 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COBALT BOMB» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cobalt bomb

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COBALT BOMB»

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Introduction to Weapons of Mass Destruction: Radiological, ...
There was much talk about a so-called "cobalt bomb" in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Rumors were heard that this new bomb was many times more powerful than the hydrogen bomb. In fact, the best fissile material for making a nuclear ...
Roland E. Langford, 2004
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Otto Hahn: Achievement and Responsibility
With a few words Hahn described the newest product of the atomic armaments' madness, the cobalt bomb. The USA and USSR had not yet risked testing this new means of mass destruction in a three stage bomb. Only criminal minds, Hahn ...
Klaus Hoffmann, 2001
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Cobalt: Cobalt Bomb, Isotopes of Cobalt, Bristol Blue Glass, ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Books, LLC, General Books LLC, 2010
4
Doomsday Men: The Real Dr. Strangelove and the Dream of the ...
'There is', concluded Arnold, 'correspondingly less doubt that the cobalt bomb could be made. One thing seems clear from recent events - it had better not be tested."" Some scientists even believed that the cobalt bomb had already been built.
P. D. Smith, 2007
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Cobalt
THE COBALT BOMB ln 1 950, the Hungarian-American physicist Leo Szilard (1 898-1 964) put forward an idea for a particularly terrifying and destructive type of nuclear weapon, called a cobalt bomb. When a nuclear explosion takes place, ...
Susan Watt, 2006
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Health Yearbook 1954
11 Cobalt Bomb Can Be Built William L. Laurence reports that the new chemical compound that has revolutionized the production of the hydrogen bomb now makes it certain that the cobalt bomb also can be successfully built. The cobalt bomb ...
Health Yearbook 1954, 1943
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The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History
Beneath it was a report on the worsening condition of the twenty-three japanese fishermen exposed to radioactive fallout after the H-bomb test at Bikini on 1 March. Media stories about the cobalt bomb—a theoretical possibility in nuclear ...
Dan Stone, 2012
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The designer would probably find this desirable, because the fallout directly downwind from a cobalt bomb would be unnecessarily heavy. The above calculations indicate that any nuclear power can easily destroy the U.S. with the close range ...
9
Front Page Physics: A Century of Physics in the News
The idea behind the " cobalt bomb " is that cobalt, when exposed to irradiation by neutrons, is converted into a radio-active form (cobalt 60), which is in use already as a substitute for radium in medical treatment. Cobalt 60 is normally prepared ...
A.J Meadows, M.M Hancock-Beaulieu, 1994
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S.Chand Success Guide Inorganic Chemistry
(M) Cobalt bomb. When hydrogen bomb is encased in a sheath of cobalt, it is called cobalt bomb. During explosion, the cobalt sheath is converted into gigantic radioactive cloud producing lethal radiations. It destroys everything which is ...
G. D. Tuli, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COBALT BOMB»

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Was HG Wells the first to think of the atom bomb?
In 1950, he predicted a cobalt bomb that would destroy all life on the planet. null Protest at Aldermaston. In Britain, the legacy of the Bomb was ... «BBC News, Jul 15»
2
The Paterson Foundation Announces $500000 Gift to the …
The 'Cobalt Bomb' was considered a huge medical advancement in its day, much like the Cyclotron is to us today. We are pleased to continue ... «Net Newsledger, Mar 15»
3
A daughter's grave, a mother's memory
Just a few years earlier, in 1955, scientists at City of Hope had developed the "cobalt bomb," which delivered radiation therapy at a fraction of ... «azcentral.com, Jan 15»
4
The Manliest Cookbook Ever Written
Because what kind of wimp stops cooking because of a cobalt bomb attack? The Herters have all the answers, especially for questions you ... «Esquire, Oct 14»
5
California Dreaming at Paul Loya Gallery, Los Angeles
Lisa Solberg, "CO 27 #1";"CO 1 (Cobalt Bomb)"; "CO 27 #2". Oil and acrylic on canvas; each canvas 72"x 48". Image courtesy of Paul Loya ... «Huffington Post, Jul 14»
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The dedication of a long-time volunteer
Wilkinson's father was a pathologist, with expertise in the popular cancer treatment of the time — “Cobalt bomb” therapy. His work took the ... «Toronto Star, Apr 13»
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Ciné Files: Dr. Strangelove's Real-Life Doomsday Machine
... have constructed a doomsday device which, at the first sign of a nuclear strike, will automatically release a Cobalt bomb into the atmosphere, ... «Paste Magazine, May 10»
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Helen Weinzweig turned personal pain into beautiful prose
"Helen likened the energy of trauma to a cobalt bomb with a radioactive half-life of 100 years. Perhaps that's how she lived so long." In 1948 ... «Globe and Mail, Feb 10»
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Climategate: Michael 'Piltdown' Mann throws Phil Jones out of the …
That is where the ticking cobalt bomb lies. With the data from East Anglia CRU, by common consent, now hopelessly discredited, the standing ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Dec 09»
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Michael Jackson: The Man in Our Mirror
... the year Thriller broke the world open louder than a cobalt bomb and remade Black American success in Michael's before-and-after image? «Village Voice, Jun 09»

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