demon core

name

Etymology

So called because of its involvement in two fatal criticality accidents at the Los Alamos Laboratory in 1945 and 1946. In the late 2010s, the circumstances of the second accident were popularized widely by science history videos and internet memes.

Definitions

A spherical subcritical mass of plutonium manufactured during World War II by the United…
A spherical subcritical mass of plutonium manufactured during World War II by the United States as a fissile core for an early atomic bomb.
2
A essential instance or part of something, especially something malevolent.
- As Mazzocchi saw it, those chemicals that poisoned his union’s rank and file eventually make their way into communities outside — through the air, soil, and waterways. The factory was therefore the demon core of the environmental crisis.
- California democrats is the demon core of Hitler partials when it comes to homelessness
3
Something that is especially dangerous and should not be tampered with, or otherwise…
Something that is especially dangerous and should not be tampered with, or otherwise reminiscent of the demon core.
- She's a 'Demon Core' of gay energy. If you drop a screwdriver on one of the piercings, she goes supercritical.
- Is this the demon core of noodles
- That this is like the demon core of edibles, you drop it and a whole city is getting high for years afterward.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for demon core. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA