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How to pronounce “megaton”
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- Practice the English pronunciation of megaton with real speech in context.
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- Phil Plait: How to defend Earth from asteroids 14 minutes, 17 seconds
and exploded with the energy of roughly a 20-megaton nuclear bomb --
- Definition summary
- A measure of the strength of an explosion or a bomb based on how many million tons of TNT would be needed to produce the same energy. (A derived unit for TNT equivalent.)
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How to pronounce megaton
Phil Plait: How to defend Earth from asteroids 14 minutes, 17 seconds

and exploded with the energy of roughly a 20-megaton nuclear bomb --
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A Deep Dive Into “megaton”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A measure of the strength of an explosion or a bomb based on how many million tons of TNT would be needed to produce the same energy. (A derived unit for TNT equivalent.)
- One million tons.
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