explosive disintegration

In addition, test specimens may fail unexpectedly with explosive disintegration.

The threat of an explosive disintegration of the eurozone – and with it of the European Union – is receding.

The resultant catastrophic explosive disintegration of the engine caused the wing and side of the aircraft to burn intensely even before the aircraft came to rest beyond the end of the runway.

The very high residual stress within the drop gives rise to counter-intuitive properties, such as the ability to withstand a blow from a hammer on the bulbous end without breaking but explosive disintegration if the tail end is even slightly damaged.

His professional scientific career started when he was 25 (8 May 1948) when he published the article "Emission of Li8 in the Explosive Disintegration of Nuclei" with R.M. Payne in the science magazine Nature.

They've been going 45 years in one incarnation or another, yet they still seem quite unlikely, a fundamentally disparate and unstable set of elements forced through sheer popularity to share a stage together with results that may well be greater than the sum of the parts but still teeter on the brink of a kind of explosive disintegration.