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nuée ardente
[ French ny-ey ar-dahnt ]
noun
- (in a volcanic eruption) a swiftly flowing, dense cloud of hot gases, ashes, and lava fragments.
nuée ardente
/ ˈnyeɪ ɑːˈdɑ̃t /
noun
- a rapidly moving turbulent incandescent cloud of gas, ash, and rock fragments flowing close to the ground after violent ejection from a volcano See also ignimbrite
nuée ardente
/ Դ̅̅-′ă-äԳ′ /
, Plural nuées ardentes Դ̅̅-z′ă-äԳ′
- A fast moving gaseous cloud of hot ashes and other material thrown out from an erupting volcano. Nuées ardentes are often incandescent.
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of nuée ardente1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of nuée ardente1
Example Sentences
Watching it, realizing it would plow right through the river valley between them and the mountain, Catherine thought of two words: “nuée ardente,” glowing cloud.
So we fled… Nuee ardente from west, Mount St. Helens.
“Nuée ardente” immediately came to mind as it became obvious nothing would stop it – not even the deep river valley that lay between us and the mountain.
A “nueé ardente”, today referred as pyroclastic density current, is a mixture of volcanic particles and hot gases that flows according to its density over long distances.
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