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Hiroshima

ightly larger than a person’s arm and most people cannot lift more than a hundred pounds on one arm. Imagine having over 10,000 pounds, or five tons, of pressure being exerted on your arms? It’s almost unbelievable. The heat given off by the blast is just as astonishing a number as the pressure. There was evidence that clay tiles, whose melting point is thirteen times hotter than that of the boiling point of water, had dissolved at about one-third of a mile away from the center of the bomb. It is estimated that at the center of the explosion, the temperature skyrocketed to about 6,000 C. That is sixty times hotter than the temperature it takes to boil water. I cannot even begin to imagine an example of anything to how hot that is....

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