Differ
Differ verb - To be unlike; to not be the same.
Yield
Yield verb - To give up and cease resistance (as to a liking, temptation, or habit).
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- However, scaling beyond a certain point is impractical, as the damage radius is approximately logarithmic (or the square-root of, sources differ) with respect to the yield.
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The largest individual nuclear weapon ever, the RDS-220 or Tsar Bomba ("Emperor Bomb"), was designed with a yield of ~100 megatons but had this reduced due to fallout concerns to a yield of 50-58 megatons (sources differ) when tested in 1961 — that is, one quarter of the Krakatoa eruption.
Source: Useful Notes / Nuclear Weapons
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