C-bomb
noun/ˈsiːbɒm/UK
Etymology
Abbreviation + bomb. In second sense, after F-bomb etc.
Definitions
Abbreviation of cobalt bomb
Abbreviation of cobalt bomb: A type of nuclear bomb encased in cobalt.
- Unlike steel, cobalt absorbs radioactivity, and in the explosion of a C-bomb, the thick shell of cobalt metal would be blasted apart with such force that the cobalt would be pulverized into very fine dust.
- But we tend to forget the C-bomb, a hydrogen bomb that could 'transmute' an element such as cobalt into a radioactive element about 320 times as powerful as radium.
The word "cunt".
Alternative letter-case form of C-bomb.
The neighborhood
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