fuel-air explosive

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   a device consisting of a container of fuel and two explosive charges; the first charge bursts open the fuel container at a predetermined height and spreads the fuel in a cloud that mixes with atmospheric oxygen; the second charge detonates the cloud which creates an enormous blast wave and incinerates whatever is below

   SynonymsFAE

   Broaderexplosive device

   Narrowerthermobaric bomb

Questions about fuel-air explosive

What does fuel-air explosive mean?

fuel-air explosive means "a device consisting of a container of fuel and two explosive charges; the first charge bursts open the fuel container at a predetermined height and spreads the fuel in a cloud that mixes with atmospheric oxygen; the second charge detonates the cloud which creates an enormous blast wave and incinerates whatever is below".

What is another word for fuel-air explosive?

Close synonyms include FAE. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fuel-air explosive a common word?

fuel-air explosive is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.