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Definition of Detonated
1. detonate [v] - See also: detonate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Detonated
Literary usage of Detonated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"A row of gun-cotton discs, of any length, placed У\г> loch apart, can all be
detonated from one end. 10. About 2 oi. compressed gun-cotton being inserted ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Again, other substances, such AS gun-cotton and nitro-glycerin, are detonated or
not according to the mode of explosion. Indeed, Abel has proved chat-most ..."
3. The Edinburgh Journal of Science by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1829)
"the residue .55 grs. detonated with 10 grs. chlorate of potash gave, inch.
Carbonic acid, 1.2 or 1 atom, Azote, 1.214 or 1 atom, And the carbon in 1.2 ..."
4. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"April 3, 1884) obtained moro permanent gases from detonated ... Nobel, in 1864,
had discovered that nitroglycerin could be detonated by means of mercury ..."
5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1874)
"Decided evidence has, moreover, been obtained of greater sharpness of action,
when gun-cotton and its preparations are detonated in the wet state; ..."
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