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33 relations: Accident, Acre, After the Battle, Ammunition, Bomb, Burton upon Trent, Cartridge (firearms), Commanding officer, David Bomberg, Detonator, England, Explosion crater, Explosive material, Group captain, Gypsum, Hanbury, Staffordshire, Incendiary device, Largest artificial non-nuclear explosions, Lime (material), List of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland by death toll, List of Royal Air Force Maintenance units, Mushroom cloud, NATO, Prisoner of war, RAF Fauld, RAF munitions storage during World War II, Reservoir, Rifle, Staffordshire, The National Archives (United Kingdom), Tonne, United States Army, War artist.
Accident
An accident, also known as an unintentional injury, is an undesirable, incidental, and unplanned event that could have been prevented had circumstances leading up to the accident been recognized, and acted upon, prior to its occurrence.
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Acre
The acre is a unit of land area used in the imperial and US customary systems.
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After the Battle
After the Battle is a military history magazine published quarterly in the United Kingdom by Battle of Britain International Limited.
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Ammunition
Ammunition (informally ammo) is the material fired, scattered, dropped or detonated from any weapon.
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Bomb
A bomb is an explosive weapon that uses the exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide an extremely sudden and violent release of energy.
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Burton upon Trent
Burton upon Trent, also known as Burton-on-Trent or simply Burton, is a town on the River Trent in East Staffordshire, England, close to the border with Derbyshire.
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Cartridge (firearms)
A cartridge is a type of firearm ammunition packaging a projectile (bullet, shots or slug), a propellant substance (usually either smokeless powder or black powder) and an ignition device (primer) within a metallic, paper or plastic case that is precisely made to fit within the barrel chamber of a breechloading gun, for the practical purpose of convenient transportation and handling during shooting.
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Commanding officer
The commanding officer (CO) or, if the incumbent is a general officer, commanding general (CG), is the officer in command of a military unit.
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David Bomberg
David Garshen Bomberg (5 December 1890 – 19 August 1957) was an English painter, and one of the Whitechapel Boys.
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Detonator
A detonator, frequently a blasting cap, is a device used to trigger an explosive device.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Explosion crater
An explosion crater is a type of crater formed when material is ejected from the surface of the ground by an explosive event at or immediately above or below the surface.
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Explosive material
An explosive material, also called an explosive, is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion if released suddenly, usually accompanied by the production of light, heat, sound, and pressure.
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Group captain
Group captain is a senior commissioned rank in many air forces.
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Gypsum
Gypsum is a soft sulfate mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, with the chemical formula CaSO4·2H2O.
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Hanbury, Staffordshire
Hanbury is a rural village and civil parish WNW of Burton-on-Trent in Staffordshire, England bounded to the north by the River Dove.
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Incendiary device
Incendiary weapons, incendiary devices or incendiary bombs are weapons designed to start fires or destroy sensitive equipment using fire (and sometimes used as anti-personnel weaponry), that use materials such as napalm, thermite, magnesium powder, chlorine trifluoride, or white phosphorus.
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Largest artificial non-nuclear explosions
There have been many extremely large explosions, accidental and intentional, caused by modern high explosives, boiling liquid expanding vapour explosions (BLEVEs), older explosives such as gunpowder, volatile petroleum-based fuels such as petrol, and other chemical reactions.
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Lime (material)
Lime is a calcium-containing inorganic mineral in which oxides, and hydroxides predominate.
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List of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland by death toll
The following list of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland is a list of major disasters (excluding acts of war but including acts of terrorism) which relate to the United Kingdom since 1801, or the states that preceded it (England and Wales and Scotland before 1707, Ireland and Great Britain from 1707 to 1800), or involved their citizens, in a definable incident or accident such as a shipwreck, where the loss of life was forty or more.
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List of Royal Air Force Maintenance units
The following is a list of Royal Air Force Maintenance Units (MU).
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Mushroom cloud
A mushroom cloud is a distinctive pyrocumulus mushroom-shaped cloud of debris/smoke and usually condensed water vapor resulting from a large explosion.
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NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantique Nord; OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries.
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Prisoner of war
A prisoner of war (POW) is a person, whether combatant or non-combatant, who is held in custody by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.
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RAF Fauld
Royal Air Force Fauld is a former Royal Air Force underground munitions storage depot located south west of Tutbury, Staffordshire and north east of Rugeley, Staffordshire, England.
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RAF munitions storage during World War II
The logistics organizations of the Royal Air Force in World War II were No. 42 Group RAF and RAF Maintenance Command.
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Reservoir
A reservoir (from French réservoir – a "tank") is a storage space for fluids.
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Rifle
A rifle is a portable long-barrelled firearm designed for precision shooting, to be held with both hands and braced against the shoulder for stability during firing, and with a barrel that has a helical pattern of grooves ("rifling") cut into the bore walls.
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Staffordshire
Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands of England.
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The National Archives (United Kingdom)
The National Archives (TNA) is a non-ministerial government department.
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Tonne
The tonne (Non-SI unit, symbol: t), commonly referred to as the metric ton in the United States, is a non-SI metric unit of mass equal to 1,000 kilograms;.
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United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
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War artist
A war artist is an artist that depicts scenes or aspects of war through their art.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Fauld_explosion
