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shock front

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The boundary between the pressure disturbance created by an explosion (in air, water, or earth) and the ambient atmosphere, water, or earth.
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Other examples included shock fronts and blast waves, such as were found around the remnants of historic supernova explosions, and in places where massive stars produced powerful solar winds which collided with the interstellar medium.
Ordinary Meeting, 2008 May 28 held at the Royal Astronomical Society, ... by Ford, Dominic / Journal of the British Astronomical Association
These guys see balls as target to sell on drugs nobody else is buying because of the credit crunch CAPTION(S): SHOCK Front yesterday
CALLS FOR GARDAI AT SCHOOL BALLS; Bid to stop debs drug dealers by The Mirror (London, England)
The question for the two Independents is how much of a chance the embattled O'Reillys will be able to give them, how deep the advertising recession will bite and, inevitably, how Kelner, an editor-in-chief who used to be just an editor, will feel and behave if his legacy (in particular, those campaigning shock front pages with views not news) take a cold bath.
Not so much a paper, more a battleground by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
 
 
 
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