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    A steam explosion is an explosion caused by violent boiling or flashing of water or ice into steam, occurring when water or ice is either superheated,...
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    explosion is a catastrophic failure of a boiler. There are two types of boiler explosions. One type is a failure of the pressure parts of the steam and...
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    create a steam explosion. Steam is traditionally created by heating a boiler via burning coal and other fuels, but it is also possible to create steam with...
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    On July 18, 2007, an explosion in Manhattan, New York City, sent a geyser of hot steam up from beneath a busy intersection, with a 40-story-high shower...
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    causing reactor components to rupture and lose coolant. The resulting steam explosions and meltdown destroyed the containment building, followed by a reactor...
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    being boiled by contact with the steam pipes or by leaks in the steam system itself. At least twelve steam pipe explosions have occurred in New York City...
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    dictionary. A phreatic eruption, also called a phreatic explosion, ultravulcanian eruption or steam-blast eruption, occurs when magma heats ground water...
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    An explosion is a rapid expansion in volume of a given amount of matter associated with an extreme outward release of energy, usually with the generation...
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    On August 19, 1989, a large steam explosion in front of a residential building generated an asbestos-containing steam cloud in the Gramercy Park neighborhood...
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    Hydrothermal explosions occur when superheated water trapped below the surface of the Earth rapidly converts from liquid to steam, violently disrupting...
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