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Definition of Explosives
1. explosive [n] - See also: explosive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Explosives
Literary usage of Explosives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"No sharp distinction can, however, be drawn between commercial and military
explosives, as many are utilized for both purposes. Many tons of surplus TNT. ..."
2. Technology Against Terrorism: The Federal Effort (1992)
"Of particular note are the explosives RDX and PETN which, together with plastic
and other fillers, compose many plastic explosives such as ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1907)
"In Part III of my "Researches on Explosives," I gave the results of a very
extensive series of experiments, the completion of which necessarily occupied a ..."
4. Technology Against Terrorism: Structuring Security (1994)
"There is a lively debate between those who favor the dog as an explosives detector
and those who place more faith in mechanical "sniffers. ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"Explosives. IN nothing is the progress of modern science more strongly ...
Half a century ago we were still in the bloom of innocency as regards explosives. ..."
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