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Explosive
Explosive Ex*plo"sive, a. [Cf. F. explosif.]
Driving or bursting out with violence and noise; causing
explosion; as, the explosive force of gunpowder.
Explosive
Explosive Ex*plo"sive, n.
1. An explosive agent; a compound or mixture susceptible of a
rapid chemical reaction, as gunpowder, or nitro-glycerine.
2. A sound produced by an explosive impulse of the breath;
(Phonetics) one of consonants p, b, t, d, k, g, which are
sounded with a sort of explosive power of voice.
Note: [See Guide to Pronunciation, [root] 155-7, 184.]
Meaning of Explosives from wikipedia
- of sound) are said to be "high
explosives" and
materials that
deflagrate are said to be "low
explosives".
Explosives may also be
categorized by their...
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Plastic explosive is a soft and hand-moldable
solid form of
explosive material.
Within the
field of
explosives engineering,
plastic explosives are also...
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variety of the
plastic explosive family known as
Composition C,
which uses RDX as its
explosive agent. C-4 is
composed of
explosives,
plastic binder, plasticizer...
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Drilling and
blasting Cooper, Paul W. (1996).
Explosives Engineering. Wiley-VCH. ISBNÂ 0-471-18636-8. http://
explosives.mst.edu/ http://www.isee.org/ http://www...
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contact explosives have
varying amounts of
energy sensitivity, they are all much more
sensitive relative to
other kinds of
explosives.
Contact explosives are...
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mixtures with
other explosives and
plasticizers or
phlegmatizers (desensitizers); it is the
explosive agent in C-4
plastic explosive and a key ingredient...
- 1970,
Congress enacted the
Explosives Control Act, 18 U.S.C.A.
Chapter 40,
which provided for
close regulation of the
explosives industry and designated...
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technology for
producing cast-cured
thermobaric PBX
explosives.
Since recently, the
Factory of
Explosives and
Pyrotechnics TRAYAL Corporation has been producing...
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military or
commercially sourced explosives, and
often combine both types, or they may
otherwise be made with
homemade explosives (HME).[citation needed] An...
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Ecological impacts of
explosives are the
effects that both
unexploded explosives and post-explosion by-products have on the environment.
Explosive derived contaminants...
