volcanic bomb

English

Noun

volcanic bomb (plural volcanic bombs)

(volcanology) A tephra, larger than 64 mm (2.5 inches) in diameter, formed when a volcano ejects viscous fragments of lava during an eruption.
Synonym: lava bomb
- 1844, Charles Darwin, Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands, visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle:
  Fragment of a spherical volcanic bomb, with the interior parts coarsely cellular, coated by a concentric layer of compact lava, and this again by a crust of finely cellular rock

Translations

Translations

Arabic: قنبلة بركانية
Armenian: հրաբխային ռումբ (hy) (hrabxayin ṙumb)
Azerbaijani: vulkan bombası
Basque: bonba bolkaniko
Belarusian: вулканічная бомба f (vulkaničnaja bómba)
Bulgarian: вулканична бомба f (vulkanična bomba)
Catalan: bomba volcànica f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 火山彈／火山弹 (zh) (huǒshāndàn)
Czech: sopečná puma f
Dutch: vulkanische bom f
Estonian: vulkaaniline pomm
Finnish: vulkaaninen pommi
French: bombe volcanique f
Galician: bomba volcánica (gl) f
Georgian: ვულკანური ყუმბარა (vulḳanuri q̇umbara)
German: vulkanische Bombe f
Greek: ηφαιστειακή βόμβα f (ifaisteiakí vómva)
Hebrew: פצצה געשית
Hungarian: vulkáni bomba
Icelandic: hraunkúla
Italian: bomba vulcanica f
Japanese: 火山弾 (ja)
Macedonian: вулканска бомба f (vulkanska bomba)
Persian: بمب آتشفشانی (fa)
Polish: bomba wulkaniczna f
Portuguese: bomba vulcânica f
Russian: вулканическая бомба (ru) f (vulkaničeskaja bomba)
Slovene: vulkanska bomba f
Spanish: bomba volcánica f
Swedish: vulkanisk bomb
Turkish: volkan bombası
Ukrainian: вулканічна бомба f (vulkanična bomba)
Uzbek: vulqon bombasi
Vietnamese: bom núi lửa

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