FIREBALL

'Fireball' is often used in reference to a large explosion or burst of fire. 'Fireball' can also refer to:
In 'science':

★ A bolide, a meteor brighter than Venus (≈apparent magnitude -5).

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★ Glowworm (astronomy), the trails left by bolide fireballs and sometimes followed by a loud noise

★ In a nuclear explosion, the volume of air around the bomb that is heated to incandescence; see also Mike Fireball

★ A "primordial fireball," a term coined by P.J.E. Peebles to describe the universe during the first 300,000 years after the Big Bang

★ The hot volume that is created when large particles are collided together at an energy that is high enough to create quark-gluon plasma in Quantum chromodynamics.
In 'games':

★ ''Fireball (pinball)'', a pinball machine released by Bally in 1972

★ An archetypal magic (gaming) effect in fantasy role-playing games, such as ''Dungeons and Dragons'', it is typically a magical sphere of fire that explodes on impact

★ In a versus fighting game, a colloquial term for a number of ranged projectile attacks

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★ A Hadouken, the original attack that gained the name, from the ''Street Fighter'' series

★ A Fire Flower, which allows characters in the ''Super Mario Bros.'' series of video games to shoot fireballs

★ Fireball Island, a 1986 Milton Bradley board game
In 'engineering':

★ The Ryan FR Fireball, a World War II-era United States aircraft made by the Ryan Aeronautical Company

★ Fireball (dinghy), a type of sailing boat

★ The McMaster Engineering Fireball, the official symbol of the Faculty of Engineering and the Engineering Society at McMaster University
In 'fiction':

★ ''Fireball XL5'', a British television series made in the 1960s

★ ''Ball of Fire'', a 1941 comedy film starring Gary Cooper

★ "Fireball", a major character in the animated television series ''Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs''

★ "Fireball", one of the "stalkers" from the movie ''The Running Man''

★ A character in the British comic book Bullet (comic) (that was later absorbed into the comic ''Warlord'')

★ Fireball (Charmed), a fictional demonic power in the television show ''Charmed''
In 'music':

★ "Great Balls of Fire," a song by Jerry Lee Lewis

★ Great Balls of Fire (film), a movie biography of Jerry Lee Lewis

★ The Fireballs, a rock and roll band of the 1950s and 1960s, also known as Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs.

★ Fireballs, a psychobilly band from Melbourne, Australia.

★ ''Fireball (album)'', the sixth studio album released by the British hard rock band Deep Purple in 1971

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★ "Fireball (song)," a Deep Purple song on the album of the same name

★ "Fireball (B'z song)", the 21st single by Japanese band B'z

★ ''Fireball Zone'', an album from Ric Ocasek
'Fireball' can also refer to:

★ Fireball Roberts, a highly-regarded NASCAR driver

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★ The Fireball Run, an American road rally event named after Fireball Roberts

★ Atomic Fireballs, hot, cinnamon-flavored hard candies

★ A Canadian cinnamon-flavoured whiskey produced by Dr. McGillicuddy's

★ An illegal wrestling move where someone throws a quick burning piece of paper into someone else's face

★ The Remington XP-100, also known as the ".221 Remington Fireball", the highest velocity production handgun cartridge