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TNT equivalent
  هموگ‌ارز ِ TNT   
hamug-arz-e TNT

Fr.: équivalent TNT   

A measure of the explosive strength of a nuclear bomb, expressed in terms of the weight of → trinitrotoluene which could release the same amount of energy when exploded. The Hiroshima atomic (fission) bomb created a blast equivalent to 16 kilotons of TNT. The first hydrogen (thermonuclear) bomb test released an energy of about 10 megatons of TNT. See also → megaton of TNT.

→ trinitrotoluene (TNT); → equivalent.