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CLEAN BOMB
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Dictionary entry overview: What does clean bomb mean?
• CLEAN BOMB (noun)
The noun CLEAN BOMB has 1 sense:
1. an atom bomb leaving little or no radioactive contamination
Familiarity information: CLEAN BOMB used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An atom bomb leaving little or no radioactive contamination
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("clean bomb" is a kind of...):
A-bomb; atom bomb; atomic bomb; fission bomb; plutonium bomb (a nuclear weapon in which enormous energy is released by nuclear fission (splitting the nuclei of a heavy element like uranium 235 or plutonium 239))
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