For the common noun which is defined as "member of a combat aircraft crew who operates the bombsight and drops the bombs":
bom' ber dîr
See Dictionary.com with a pronunciation key at:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bombardier
The proper noun of Bombardier, Inc. and its family of companies (including Bombardier Recreational Products which owns popular brands Sea-Doo, Ski-Doo, Evinrude, Johnson and many others as well as Bombardier Aerospace) is pronounced:
bom bar dee ay
Mr. J.-A. Bombardier founded the company. He is a French speaking Canadian from Quebec who naturally uses a French pronunciation of his name.
http://www.bombardier.com/
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2006-08-14 07:09:17
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answered by tke999 3
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Bombardier Pronunciation
2016-11-01 22:19:40
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answered by ? 4
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Posting a science question in the religion and spirituality section often means the asker does not really want an answer. His goal is to ask a question that he believes proves some scientific knowledge to be wrong, or that science does not yet answer, and make the implicit claim that the only other explanation is a god, and specifically, the same god he happens to believe in. It's the "god of the gaps" - intellectually bankrupt, since it favors ignorance instead of knowledge, and because of the contained logical fallacy - and it's done almost exclusively by christians. However, on the off chance that you really want to know the answer: 1. This is an argument from incredulity. It is based in part on an inaccurate description of how the beetle's bombardier mechanism works, but even then the argument rests solely on the lack of even looking for evidence. In fact, an evolutionary pathway that accounts for the bombardier beetle is not hard to come up with (Isaak 1997). One plausible sequence (much abbreviated) is thus: 1. Insects produce quinones for tanning their cuticle. Quinones make them distasteful, so the insects evolve to produce more of them and to produce other defensive chemicals, including hydroquinones. 2. The insects evolve depressions for storing quinones and muscles for ejecting them onto their surface when threatened with being eaten. The depression becomes a reservoir with secretory glands supplying hydroquinones into it. This configuration exists in many beetles, including close relatives of bombardier beetles (Forsyth 1970). 3. Hydrogen peroxide becomes mixed with the hydroquinones. Catalases and peroxidases appear along the output passage of the reservoir, ensuring that more quinones appear in the exuded product. 4. More catalases and peroxidases are produced, generating oxygen and producing a foamy discharge, as in the bombardier beetle Metrius contractus (Eisner et al. 2000). 5. As the output passage becomes a hardened reaction chamber, still more catalases and peroxidases are produced, gradually becoming today's bombardier beetles. All of the steps are small or can be easily broken down into smaller ones, and all are probably selectively advantageous. Several of the intermediate stages are known to be viable by the fact that they exist in other living species. 2. Bombardier beetles illustrate other aspects of life that look undesigned: * With design, we expect similar forms to be created for similar functions and different forms for different functions (Morris 1974, 70). However, what we see is different forms for similar functions. Many ground beetles have very similar habits and habitats as centipedes, but their forms differ greatly. Different groups of bombardier beetles use very different mechanisms for the same function of aiming their spray (Eisner 1958; Eisner and Aneshansley 1982). * Some forms have no function. Some bombardier beetles have vestigial flight wings (Erwin 1970, 46,55,91,114-115,119). * If bombardier beetles have a purpose, then death is an integral part of it, since the beetles are predators (some, as larvae, are parasitoids, gradually eating pupae of other beetles [Erwin 1967]), and their spray is a defense against other predators. Many creationists claim that death was not part of God's design.
2016-03-28 22:15:59
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answered by Anonymous
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1. Hydroquinone is present in most insects, it makes them taste unpleasant. 2. Hydrogen peroxide and peroxidase is present in every living creature. 3 All beetles of the sub order Adephaga have paired pygidial glands at their rear, not just Bombardiers. Most insects have pygidial glands, so it pre dates the beetles.Which in most cases is used to produce a noxious liquid, (hydroquinone), to deter predators. So the ducts predated the use of the explosive excretion. 4. Speed of evolution, it took less than 20,000 years for Europeans to become white skinned as vitamin D deficiency would have a decimating effect on any dark skinned population with poor diet in northern latitudes. The same goes for lactose tolerance, that must have taken less than 2000 years. 5. The Bombardiers probably began by expelling just the uncatilysed hydroquinone from its pygidial glands. The adaption that included peroxidase would have made the hydroquinone would have made it heat up, the hydrogen peroxide would have super heated it. 6. The fact that the glands and the compounds used are common in all insects show that it is just an adaption of pre existing resources. I put probably because I do not have a time machine, but as beetles such as the Darkling beetle already use the defense of squirting quinones from ther pygidial glands uncatalysed, it is more than reasonable to assume that Bombadiers began this way too.
2016-03-16 09:49:16
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answered by Anonymous
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Nitz is not right, nor is that pronunciation correct in the original French. The guy in the nose of a WWII bomber charged with the responsibility of dropping bombs was a "bomba-deer" and often called the "toggle-eer" for the toggle switch used in dropping the ordnance. In the modern U.S. Air Force, there are ground grippers who study target imagery known as "targeteers."
2016-05-27 10:30:11
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answered by Bosbefok 1
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2016-08-23 04:20:11
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answered by Anonymous
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2016-08-08 12:29:09
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answered by Loyce 3
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2006-08-14 06:44:10
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answered by Anonymous
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nitz is correct
2006-08-14 06:43:54
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answered by michael_stewart32 4
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2006-08-18 01:30:42
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answered by dong 2
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