How to Use kiloton in a Sentence

kiloton

noun

• That bolide blasted apart with the energy of 2.3 kilotons of TNT.
  — National Geographic, 9 Oct. 2017
• Each carries up to eight warheads of at least 100 kilotons each.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 5 Mar. 2018
• Oddly, the final setting of the nuke in The Strain is 15 kilotons, which the protagonists say is enough to take out a skyscraper but spare the city.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 2 Apr. 2018
• One kiloton is equivalent to the force produced in an explosion of 1,000 tons of TNT.
  — CBS News, 6 Sep. 2017
• Comparing this range with the graph above, this means that the Waco explosion could have been a nearly one-kiloton blast.
  — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 18 Apr. 2013
• By comparison, the yield of the Hiroshima bomb was just 15 kilotons.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 May 2019
• Sunday's test comes almost one year to the day of the fifth nuclear test, which was determined to have involved a 10 kiloton bomb.
  — James Griffiths, CNN, 3 Sep. 2017
• North Korea's previous largest was thought to be anywhere from 10 to 30 kilotons.
  — Eric Talmadge, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Sep. 2017
• That’s far more than the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima (15 kilotons) and Nagasaki (around 20).
  — Eric Talmadge, The Seattle Times, 3 Sep. 2017
• That's far more than the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima (15 kilotons) and Nagasaki (around 20).
  — Eric Talmadge, chicagotribune.com, 3 Sep. 2017
• Their warheads can have a smaller impact, with a yield range that spreads from one to several hundred kilotons.
  — Kristin Ven Bruusgaard, Foreign Affairs, 6 Feb. 2023
• Seismic data suggest the blast was around 120 kilotons—at least eight times more powerful than the North’s previous test a year ago.
  — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
• The North claims the device was made domestically and has explosive power that can range from tens to hundreds of kilotons.
  — Eric Talmadge, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Sep. 2017
• The last one, in September, had an estimated yield of 20 to 30 kilotons, more than double the explosive force of any previous test.
  — Ellen Nakashima, , Anna Fifield, Joby Warrick, Alaska Dispatch News, 25 July 2017
• Some respected analysts have even pegged it at 250 kilotons.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2017
• The Hiroshima explosion yielded a blast of 15 kilotons.
  — CBS News, 6 Sep. 2017
• The analysts also said that the explosive yield from the Sept. 3 nuclear test may have been as much as 250 kilotons, based on revised estimates of the magnitude of the tremor created by the blast.
  — Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2017
• Right now, its strongest warhead can detonate at about 20 kilotons, similar to the bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
  — Amanda Erickson, Washington Post, 8 July 2017
• But the technique has been mostly limited to explosions more powerful than 1 kiloton of TNT.
  — Byjonathan O’Callaghan, science.org, 12 May 2023
• Another option would drop bombs of 70 kilotons each on a wider range of military targets if North Korea attacked South Korea.
  — Fred Kaplan, Slate Magazine, 27 Sep. 2017
• The official statement suggested that the test was of a device that could be adjusted to produce explosions that range between tens of kilotons and hundreds.
  — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
• But estimates of its yield (explosive power) varied between 10 and 30 kilotons, which even at the higher end is too little for a hydrogen bomb.
  — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
• The explosive yield of nuclear weapon is typically measured in kilotons, or thousand tons of TNT.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 Apr. 2019
• That’s enough to flatten a city or industrial target: by comparison, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima was just 16 kilotons.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 Jan. 2020
• Hiroshima, by way of comparison, had an explosive yield of 16 kilotons.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2018
• Oppenheimer’s little Hiroshima bomb had an explosive power of 15 kilotons—or 15 thousand tons of TNT.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 29 Jan. 2024
• Those were crude, comparatively simple devices that produced explosive yields measured in kilotons, or thousands of tons of TNT.
  — Time, 24 July 2023
• For comparison's sake, the Hiroshima bomb is commonly assessed at about 15 kilotons.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 7 Sep. 2017
• The resulting shock wave was as powerful as a 550 kiloton nuclear explosion—and the Tunguska object was probably much larger.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 July 2019
• By comparison, the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima produced just 20 kilotons.
  — Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023

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