(n.) A ball filled with powder or other combustibles, intended to be thrown among enemies, and to injure by explosion; also, to set fire to their works and light them up, so that movements may be seen.
(n.) A luminous meteor, resembling a ball of fire passing rapidly through the air, and sometimes exploding.
Example Sentences:
(1) Camping was disarmingly honest about the impact the world's inconvenient continuance was having on him, after he predicted 200 million Christians would rise to heaven by 6pm on Saturday followed by the destruction of the Earth in a massive fireball.
(2) Tonight they’re dancing the Quickstep to 'Man With the Hex' by Atomic Fireballs.
(3) A plane-spotter, Anthony Castorani, told CNN he heard a "pop" as the jet landed, followed by a brief fireball at which point the aircraft began to break up and spin.
(4) A Russian spacecraft that broke down on its way to the International Space Station last week will burn up in a bright fireball as it falls back to Earth, according to the country’s space agency.
(5) It showed that at the very beginning of the universe, the smallest building blocks of nature were truly weightless, but became heavy a fraction of a second later, when the fireball of the big bang cooled.
(6) Her husband, who was in another part of town when the blast hit, told her a huge fireball rose like "a mushroom cloud".
(7) A tour guide who spoke to the men before they took off saw a large fireball in the distance soon after the helicopter departed, said police assistant commissioner Neil Smith.
(8) He described the giant fireball as a massive force that shook his car.
(9) St Louis rookie fireballer Trevor Rosenthal struck out the side in the ninth, fanning Andre Ethier on three pitches to end it.
(10) Stationed against them are the young, invariably seen as fireballs of energy and new ideas.
(11) Others suffered retinal burns from watching the fireball, or burns that left their skin peeling.
(12) One of the last major disasters in the British Isles, the Summerland fire of 1973, occurred when a new hi-tech entertainment venue on the Isle of Man – a single, gigantic, air-conditioned space connecting various leisure activities – was turned into a massive fireball by a discarded cigarette.
(13) An hour earlier, Channel 4's Meteor Strike: Fireball from Space averaged 2 million and a 6.7% share.
(14) The blast shook the earth and rolled a huge fireball through the town at about 8pm local time, raining burning debris and shrapnel over a five-block radius.
(15) These microscopic fireballs of energy condense into well known subatomic particles, but scientists hope that among them they will see other more exotic particles, including the Higgs boson .
(16) We passed streets of crumpled buildings, long banks of debris, shopfront shutters buckled by the vacuum bombs that suck in and ignite the air to create fireballs.
(17) The official said Shahzad went back last Saturday and left the Pathfinder loaded with firecrackers, petrol and propane, potentially enough to create a fireball and kill people nearby including tourists and Broadway theatregoers.
(18) The fireball could be bright enough to see in broad daylight, Krag said.
(19) "In my judgment, it would have caused casualties, a significant fireball.
(20) The huge fireball and explosion of smoke were worse than I had imagined.
Meteorite
Definition:
(n.) A mass of stone or iron which has fallen to the earth from space; an aerolite.
Example Sentences:
(1) The toll was slight because the 20-metre-wide meteorite exploded so high, more than 20km above the ground.
(2) We’ve gathered a few creative intergalactic lesson plans below – including edible meteorites and studying real lunar rocks.
(3) "It was rather easy to find fragments in the first days after the meteorite fell, because the chunks left holes in the snow," Grokhovsky told the Guardian.
(4) The amino acid composition and the pyrolyzable organic content of the Antarctic Allan Hills meteorite (ALHA 77306.9 and ALHA 77306.17) was examined.
(5) Short of sending a spacecraft or astronaut to the red planet to haul back rocks, Martian meteorites are the next best thing for scientists seeking to better understand how Earth's neighbour transformed from a tropical environment to a frigid desert.
(6) Having an accurate measurement of the Martian atmosphere also clears up some confusion over the origin of a group of meteorites on Earth, that were assumed to have originated from Mars based on measurements of trapped gases within them, but their identity could not be confirmed without the hard data provided by these results.
(7) A sample of the Murchison meteorite was extracted with D2O and in addition of 'free' amino acids, showing no deuterium incorporation, some amino acids showed the presence of deuterium suggesting either a 'precursor(s)' or hydrogen-deuterium exchange which require(s) formation of carbon-hydrogen bonds.
(8) First, grab an apron and get baking; the meteorite recipes can be found here .
(9) It was that moment when me and my colleagues from Ural Federal University's nanotech centre determined the meteorite's origin and the substance of the chunks which were collected not far from the hole in the ice," Grokhovsky said.
(10) Or it can be “to solve some mystery”, such as his trips to Guatemala and Belize, to uncover the fate of the Mayan civilisation, or Siberia, to learn about the Tunguska meteorite, thought to have created a blast as powerful as 1,000 Hiroshimas in 1908.
(11) "It is very hard to overestimate the importance of the meteorite's recovery from the lake.
(12) Meteorites, The Universe, Road to the Stars, Planet of Tempests, The Moon, et al.
(13) Researchers performed a battery of tests on the meteorite and, based on its chemical signature, confirmed it was blasted to Earth from Mars.
(14) "Unless he takes a tumble or is hit by a falling meteorite."
(15) "It's yet another piece of evidence which makes it more likely that life came to Earth on a Martian meteorite, rather than starting on this planet."
(16) It relies upon the expected El Nino which is currently 70~90% likely A major volcanic eruption or a giant meteorite could change this, otherwise 2015 is the one to watch.
(17) 1.1m page views 10) Meteorite slams into central Russia injuring 1,100 – live Friday 15 February 2013 "I was driving to work, it was quite dark, but it suddenly became as bright as if it was day.
(18) Most space rocks that fall to Earth as meteorites come from the asteroid belt, but a number can be traced to the moon and Mars.
(19) For example, it is estimated that a major meteorite impact, such as the one that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs 65m years ago, occurs on average every 100m years.
(20) Cut the edible meteorites in half so students can describe what they are like inside, but make sure they use technical vocabulary not culinary terms.