Blast Explained
Blast or The Blast may refer to:
- Explosion, a rapid increase in volume and release of energy in an extreme manner
- Detonation, an exothermic front accelerating through a medium that eventually drives a shock front
- A planned explosion in a mine, quarry or other situation in order to fragment rock
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Music
- Blast (American band), a hardcore punk band
- Blast (Russian band), an indie band
- Blast, a Danish band with which Hanne Boel performed
- Blast (album), by Holly Johnson, 1989
- The Blast (album), by Yuvan Shankar Raja, 1999
- "The Blast" (song), by Reflection Eternal, 2001
- "Blast", a song by Momoiro Clover Z, 2017
Science and technology
- BLAST (protocol), file transfer software
- BLAST (telescope), Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope
- BLAST (biotechnology), Basic Local Alignment Search Tool, an algorithm used in bioinformatics
- Blast cell or precursor cell, in cytology, a type of partially differentiated, usually unipotent cell
- Blast disease, a disease of cereal crops
- Blast injury, a complex type of physical trauma resulting from direct or indirect exposure to an explosion
- BLAST network, a proposed rapid transit system for Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Bell Laboratories Layered Space-Time, a transceiver architecture
- FreeX Blast, a German paraglider design
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