Definition of Plastic explosive

1. Noun. An explosive material that is easily molded around the object it is intended to destroy.

Exact synonyms: Plastique
Generic synonyms: Explosive Compound
Substance meronyms: Plastic Bomb

Definition of Plastic explosive

1. Noun. Any of a number of explosive materials formulated to be soft and hand malleable. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plastic Explosive

plastibase
plastic
plastic anatomy
plastic art
plastic arts
plastic bag
plastic bags
plastic beauty
plastic bomb
plastic bronchitis
plastic cheese
plastic corpuscle
plastic cyclitis
plastic deformation
plastic embedding
plastic explosive
plastic explosives
plastic film
plastic flow
plastic iritis
plastic laminate
plastic lymph
plastic money
plastic motor
plastic operation
plastic pleurisy
plastic plod
plastic plods
plastic restoration material

Literary usage of Plastic explosive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Land Mines in Angola by Africa Watch Committee (1993)
"These devices are typically improvised from plastic explosive. An indication of the emphasis placed on improvised devices by South African units operating ..."

2. Bulletin by Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (1904)
"Wrappers on these lines, containing a plastic explosive, could be easily developed, but it is doubtful if a highly plastic explosive ..."

3. Technology Against Terrorism: The Federal Effort (1992)
"Unusually low nitrogen density for a plastic explosive: 18 percent by weight (compare with RDX). Primary ingredient of military plastic explosives known as ..."

4. Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996: Public Law 104-132 by DIANE Publishing Company (1998)
"... subsections: "(p) 'Detection agent' means any one of the substances specified in this subsection when introduced into a plastic explosive or formulated ..."

5. The FBI Laboratory: An Investigation Into Laboratory Practices and Alleged by Michael R. Bromwich (1998)
"A. It is a molded type of explosive and generally characterized as a military explosive when someone talks about a plastic explosive. ..."

6. Nature by Nature Publishing Group, Norman Lockyer (1879)
"... less considerable resistance being opposed to the mechanical dispersion of Ihe plastic explosive substances, ..."

7. Land Mines in Angola by Africa Watch Committee (1993)
"These devices are typically improvised from plastic explosive. An indication of the emphasis placed on improvised devices by South African units operating ..."

8. Bulletin by Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (1904)
"Wrappers on these lines, containing a plastic explosive, could be easily developed, but it is doubtful if a highly plastic explosive ..."

9. Technology Against Terrorism: The Federal Effort (1992)
"Unusually low nitrogen density for a plastic explosive: 18 percent by weight (compare with RDX). Primary ingredient of military plastic explosives known as ..."

10. Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996: Public Law 104-132 by DIANE Publishing Company (1998)
"... subsections: "(p) 'Detection agent' means any one of the substances specified in this subsection when introduced into a plastic explosive or formulated ..."

11. The FBI Laboratory: An Investigation Into Laboratory Practices and Alleged by Michael R. Bromwich (1998)
"A. It is a molded type of explosive and generally characterized as a military explosive when someone talks about a plastic explosive. ..."

12. Nature by Nature Publishing Group, Norman Lockyer (1879)
"... less considerable resistance being opposed to the mechanical dispersion of Ihe plastic explosive substances, ..."

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