Crossword clues for fogbank
Wiktionary
n. A bank of fog.
WordNet
n. a large mass of fog on the sea (as seen from a distance)
Wikipedia
FOGBANK is a code name given to a material used in nuclear weapons such as the W76, W78 and W80.
FOGBANK's precise nature is classified; in the words of former Oak Ridge general manager Dennis Ruddy, "The material is classified. Its composition is classified. Its use in the weapon is classified, and the process itself is classified." Department of Energy Nuclear Explosive Safety documents simply describe it as a material "used in nuclear weapons and nuclear explosives" along with lithium hydride (LiH) and lithium deuteride (LiD), beryllium (Be), uranium hydride (UH), and plutonium hydride. Many arms experts believe that FOGBANK is an aerogel material which acts as an interstage material in a nuclear warhead, i.e. a material designed to become a superheated plasma following the detonation of the weapon's fission stage, the plasma then triggering the fusion-stage detonation.
Usage examples of "fogbank".
Wiry and pale, Sirhan wears the robes of a Berber goatherd on his body and the numinous halo of a utility fogbank above his head: In his abstraction, he vaguely resembles a saintly shepherd in a post-singularity nativity play.
Annette gives in and magics up a chair from the swirling fogbank beneath the ceiling.
We stood beside the wall, beneath the great hill rising from the shifting fogbank, and my father tried to convince me to hand over the code.
What had looked like only more hellish space, only mere fogbank dimness, turned out when I bumped into it to be a solid wall, painted or naturally colored gray, in shadings that gave it the look of fog when seen from only a few feet away.
A tire blew and the car did an about-face, kicking up a fogbank of dost.
And here I am still stuck on this lousy chunk of slush because somebody sees an anomaly in a fogbank a few thousand kilometers away.
After the clamor of the chase, with the fresh north wind blowing, the ropes and sheets singing in the yards, the canvas snapping constantly, this muffled fogbank was unnaturally silent.
He had a cigarette in his fingers, unlit despite the layer of tobacco that hung like a fogbank in the thick air.
Rand watched over his shoulder as he rode, hoping for one last glimpse, even of Taren Ferry, until the fogbank was lost to sight.
Then the fogbank was gone and the ground suddenly appeared, jagged shelves of rock speeding up toward them.
Rand watched over his shoulder as he rode, hoping for one last glimpse, even of Taren Ferry until the fogbank was lost to sight.
The shriller bark of the eight-pounders and carronades the schooners carried ended the exercise, leaving only a fogbank of powder smoke drifting eastward as it dispersed.
She trotted through the rotten-egg-smelling fogbank of their discharge and saw the second rank dash through the first and run ten yards ahead, going to one knee in their turn.
Dark shadows drifted by, some of the clouds so low they formed fogbanks in the creek beds, even in sunlight.
Far out fogbanks crept towards the land, an army of ghosts crawling on their bellies.