Megaton or megaton is a term used to characterize the unit of measure that serves to assess the destructive power contained in a nuclear projectile. It is equivalent to 4.184 petajoules.
The term then refers to the classification of energy release when a nuclear explosion occurs. It is represented by the acronym Mt.
This energy unit is adopted in several nuclear weapons control treaties, and gives a sense of the destructive power compared to conventional explosives. It has also been used to describe the energy released in destructive events such as asteroid impacts.
This classification is done by comparing the energy produced by the explosion of the projectile with the energy produced by the explosion of one million tons of trinitrotoluene (T.N.T.), a chemical present in explosives.
A ton (or ton) of TNT is a unit of energy equivalent to 4.184 gigajoules, approximately the amount of energy released by the detonation of a ton of TNT. The megaton (or megaton) of TNT then generates a unit of energy equivalent to 4.184 petajoules.
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