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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

• CLEAN BOMB (noun)

Sense 1

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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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