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Substance that can explode
An explosive (or explosive material) is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion if released
Explosive
Iranian digital media platform
Explosive Media (also known as Explosive News, Persian: اخبار انفجاری, romanized: Akhbar Enfejari, lit. '"Explosive News"') is an Iranian digital media
Explosive_Media
Variety of plastic explosive
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
C-4_(explosive)
Type of explosive material
Plastic explosive is a soft and hand-moldable solid form of explosive material. Within the field of explosives engineering, plastic explosives are also
Plastic_explosive
Ammunition type
High explosive squash head (HESH) A high-explosive squash head (HESH), in British terminology, or a high-explosive plastic/plasticized (HEP), in US-American
High-explosive_squash_head
Type of shaped charge explosive
High-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) is the effect of a shaped charge explosive that uses the Munroe effect to penetrate heavy armor. The warhead functions
High-explosive_anti-tank
Sensitive explosive charge
An explosive booster is a sensitive explosive charge that acts as a bridge between a (relatively weak) conventional detonator and a low-sensitivity (but
Explosive_booster
Unconventionally produced bomb
An improvised explosive device (IED) is a bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action. It may be constructed of conventional
Improvised_explosive_device
Substance which explodes when exposed to small amounts of energy
contact explosives have varying amounts of energy sensitivity, they are all much more sensitive relative to other kinds of explosives. Contact explosives are
Contact_explosive
Device producing a high-temperature explosion
vacuum bomb, is a type of explosive munition that works by dispersing an aerosol cloud of gas, liquid or powdered explosive. This allows the chemical
Thermobaric_weapon
Type of explosive
A binary explosive or two-component explosive is an explosive consisting of two components, neither of which is explosive by itself, which have to be mixed
Binary_explosive
Explosive chemical compound
RDX (Research Department Explosive or Royal Demolition Explosive), or hexogen, also known by other names, is an organic compound with the formula (CH2N2O2)3
RDX
Small explosive device
A squib is a miniature explosive device used in a wide range of industries and applications, from special effects to the military. It resembles a tiny
Squib_(explosive)
The net explosive quantity (NEQ), also known as net explosive content (NEC) or net explosive weight (NEW), of a shipment of munitions, fireworks or similar
Net_explosive_quantity
Unplanned drop in the pressure of a sealed system
pressurize at all. Such decompression may be classed as explosive, rapid, or slow: Explosive decompression (ED) is violent and too fast for air to escape
Uncontrolled_decompression
Mental disorder characterized by anger
Intermittent explosive disorder (IED), or episodic dyscontrol syndrome (EDS), is a mental disorder characterized by explosive outbursts of anger or violence
Intermittent explosive disorder
Intermittent_explosive_disorder
Predictive qualitative scale for explosiveness of volcanic eruptions
The volcanic explosivity index (VEI) is a scale used to measure the size of explosive volcanic eruptions. It was devised by Christopher G. Newhall of the
Volcanic_explosivity_index
Type of ammunition
In warfare, high-explosive incendiary (HEI) is a type of ammunition specially designed to impart energy and therefore damage to its target in one or both
High-explosive_incendiary
Payload-carrying projectile
a modern military context, is a projectile whose payload contains an explosive, incendiary, or other chemical filling. Originally it was called a bombshell
Shell_(projectile)
physical chemistry, explosive boiling or phase explosion is a process in which a superheated metastable liquid undergoes an explosive liquid–vapour phase
Explosive_boiling
Device that creates a violent release of energy
An explosive device typically refers to a bomb that is not used by a military. It contains an explosive with a detonator connected to a triggering mechanism
Explosive_device
Shaped charge used in nuclear weapons
An explosive lens—as used, for example, in nuclear weapons—is a highly specialized shaped charge. In general, it is a device composed of several explosive
Explosive_lens
Type of weapon
An explosive weapon is a weapon that uses an explosive to project blast and/or fragmentation from a point of detonation. In the common practice of states
Explosive_weapon
Explosive device that an individual wears
An explosive belt (also called suicide belt, suicide vest or bomb vest) is an improvised explosive device, a belt or a vest packed with explosives and
Explosive_belt
Chemical compound
HBT is a bistetrazole. It is an explosive approximately as powerful as HMX or CL-20, but it releases biodegradable products when detonated: ammonia and
HBT_(explosive)
Explosive made using nitroglycerin
Dynamite is an explosive made of nitroglycerin, sorbents (such as powdered shells or clay), and stabilizers. It was invented by the Swedish chemist and
Dynamite
Rapidly deepening extratropical cyclonic low-pressure area
Explosive cyclogenesis (also referred to as a weather bomb, meteorological bomb, explosive development, bomb cyclone, or bombogenesis) is the rapid deepening
Explosive_cyclogenesis
Field of study in explosive materials
Explosives engineering is the field of science and engineering which is related to examining the behavior and usage of explosive materials. Some of the
Explosives_engineering
Impact-resistant high explosive
explosive was not recognized for three decades, mainly because it was so much less sensitive than other explosives known at the time. Its explosive properties
TNT
An explosive ROF was a UK government-owned Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF), which specialised in manufacturing explosives during and after World War II.
Explosive_ROFs
Shaped charge designed to penetrate armor effectively
An explosively formed penetrator (EFP), also known as an explosively formed projectile, a self-forging warhead, or a self-forging fragment, is a special
Explosively_formed_penetrator
Activity to dispose of and render safe explosive munitions and other materials
Bomb disposal is an explosives engineering profession using the process by which hazardous explosive devices are disabled or otherwise rendered safe. Bomb
Bomb_disposal
Type of volcanic eruption in which lava is violently expelled
In volcanology, an explosive eruption is a volcanic eruption of the most violent type. A notable example is the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. Such
Explosive_eruption
Type of vehicle armour
armour, it detonates the inner explosive, releasing blunt damage that the tank can absorb. The most common type is explosive reactive armour (ERA), but variants
Reactive_armour
Pyrotechnic device
originally made in the mid 20th century for the U.S. military to simulate explosives or artillery fire. The "M" is designated by a U.S. military convention
M-80_(explosive)
Weapon developed during World War II
The explosive rat, also known as a rat bomb, was a weapon developed by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) in World War II for use against
Explosive_rat
Ammunition type designed to penetrate armour
high-explosive SAPHEI – Semi-armour-piercing high-explosive incendiary SAPHEI-T – Semi-armour-piercing high-explosive incendiary tracer High-explosive anti-tank
Armour-piercing_ammunition
Vehicle armor
Non-explosive reactive armour (NxRA), also known as non-energetic reactive armor (NERA), is a type of vehicle armor used by modern main battle tanks and
Non-explosive_reactive_armor
Sequence of events that results in the detonation of explosives
sequence, also called an explosive train or a firing train, is a sequence of events that culminates in the detonation of explosives. For safety reasons, most
Explosive_train
Military badge of the United States Armed Forces
The Explosive Ordnance Disposal Badge is a military badge of the United States Armed Forces which recognizes those service members, qualified as explosive
Explosive Ordnance Disposal Badge
Explosive_Ordnance_Disposal_Badge
Burning within well-defined lower and upper bounds
Flammability limits or explosive limits are the ranges of fuel concentrations in relation to oxygen from the air. Combustion can range in violence from
Flammability_limit
Explosive materials where powder is bound together in a matrix with synthetic polymer
Polymer-bonded explosives, also called PBX or plastic-bonded explosives, are explosive materials in which explosive powder is bound together in a matrix
Polymer-bonded_explosive
Sudden release of heat and gas
created by high explosives are known as detonations and travel through shock waves. Subsonic explosions are created by low explosives through a slower
Explosion
This timeline lists the development of explosives and related events. History of gunpowder Timeline of the gunpowder age Largest artificial non-nuclear
Timeline_of_explosives
EU ATEX Directive on workplaces with an explosive atmosphere
and equipment used in explosive atmospheres. The name is an initialization of the term ATmosphères EXplosives (French for "explosive atmospheres"). Organizations
ATEX_directives
Multi-effect and multi-purpose ammunition type
High-explosive incendiary/armor-piercing ammunition (HEIAP) is a form of shell which combines armor-piercing capability and a high-explosive effect. In
High-explosive incendiary/armor-piercing ammunition
High-explosive_incendiary/armor-piercing_ammunition
Type of harpoon used in whaling
The explosive harpoon is a type of harpoon which uses an explosive to assist in whaling. In the modern day, Norway, Japan, and Iceland commonly use them
Explosive_harpoon
Modular explosive used for ordinance disposal & demolitions
Krakatoa is a modular explosive device used for explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) or demolitions developed by the British company Alford Technologies
Krakatoa_(explosive)
An explosive gas leak detector is a device used to detect explosive gas leaks in enclosed spaces. Typically, a local alarm will be triggered, and optionally
Explosive_gas_leak_detector
Allotrope of antimony that explodes when exposed to friction or heat
Explosive antimony is an allotrope of the chemical element antimony that is so sensitive to shock that it explodes when scratched or subjected to sudden
Explosive_antimony
Industrial high explosive
nitrate/fuel oil; /ˈænfoʊ/ AN-foh) is a widely used bulk industrial high explosive. It consists of 94% porous prilled ammonium nitrate (NH4NO3) (AN), which
ANFO
Effects of explosive materials on the environment
Ecological impacts of explosives are the effects that both unexploded explosives and post-explosion by-products have on the environment. Explosive derived contaminants
Ecological impact of explosives
Ecological_impact_of_explosives
Chemical compound
materials—compounds with zero oxygen balance that outperform traditional explosives while potentially offering environmental benefits, such as reduced toxicity
NTB_(explosive)
Explosive device not necessarily for military use
A nuclear explosive is an explosive device that derives its energy from nuclear reactions. Almost all nuclear explosive devices that have been designed
Nuclear_explosive
Explosive weapon that uses exothermic reaction
A bomb is an explosive weapon that uses the exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide an extremely sudden and violent release of energy.
Bomb
Index of articles associated with the same name
A mine is an explosive placed underground or underwater that explodes when disturbed, or when remotely triggered. The term originated from the use of
Explosive_mine
Small explosive device used to trigger a larger explosion
small explosive device or small quantity of explosive, which can be combined with a fuse, used for detonating a larger charge of high explosive. Detonators
Detonator
Degree to which an explosive can be set off by impact, heat, or friction
In explosives engineering, sensitivity refers to the degree to which an explosive can be initiated by impact, heat, or friction. Current in-use standard
Sensitivity_(explosives)
Chemical mixtures that expand on setting in drilled holes to split rock
Non-explosive demolition agents are chemicals that are an alternative to explosives and gas pressure blasting products in demolition, mining, and quarrying
Non-explosive demolition agents
Non-explosive_demolition_agents
In explosive materials, strength is the parameter determining the ability of the explosive to move the surrounding material. It is related to the total
Strength_(explosive)
Explosive mixed with a stabilization or desensitization agent
phlegmatize in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A phlegmatized explosive is an explosive that has had an agent (a phlegmatizer) added to stabilize or desensitize
Phlegmatized_explosive
Part of the United Nations Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods
The Explosive Shipping Classification System exists as part of the United Nations Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Good: Model Regulations
Explosives shipping classification system
Explosives_shipping_classification_system
Chemicals used in WWI and WWII munitions
Shellite (known as Tridite in US service) is an explosive mixture of picric acid and dinitrophenol or picric acid and hexanitrodiphenylamine in a ratio
Shellite_(explosive)
Technique in metalworking involving an explosive charge
Explosive forming is a metalworking technique in which an explosive charge is used instead of a punch or press. It can be used on materials for which
Explosive_forming
Chemical compound
dense (ρ = 1.985 g cm−3) nitramine high explosive, that derives from the very powerful and sensitive high explosive CL-20. Though related to CL-20 in that
TEX_(explosive)
1919 horror story by William Hope Hodgson
"The Baumoff Explosive", also known as "Eloi, Eloi, Lama Sabachthani" is a horror story by William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1919. The story is
The_Baumoff_Explosive
Military explosive
Minol (pronounced mine-ol) is a military explosive developed by the Admiralty early in the Second World War to augment supplies of trinitrotoluene (TNT)
Minol_(explosive)
Military unit
(Explosive Ordnance Disposal and Search) Group, formerly 29 Engineer Brigade, is an engineer formation of the British Army responsible for Explosive Ordnance
29 (Explosive Ordnance Disposal and Search) Group
29_(Explosive_Ordnance_Disposal_and_Search)_Group
Topics referred to by the same term
Look up explosion, explosive, explode, or exploder in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An explosion is a sudden increase in volume and release of energy
Explosion_(disambiguation)
1961 film by Buzz Kulik
The Explosive Generation (also known as The Chalk Circle, Arena, The Arena, Circle of Chalk and Bold Generation ) is a 1961 American film directed by
The_Explosive_Generation
The Fido explosives detector is a battery-powered, handheld sensory device that uses amplifying fluorescent polymer (AFP) materials to detect trace levels
Fido_explosives_detector
Device detecting tiny amounts of explosives
Explosive trace detectors (ETD) are explosive detection equipment able to detect explosives of small magnitude. The detection is accomplished by sampling
Explosives_trace_detector
Most powerful nuclear weapon ever tested
design principles for high-yield thermonuclear charges, allowing nuclear explosives "of practically unlimited power". The bomb was dropped by parachute from
Tsar_Bomba
Type of explosive
High Blast Explosive, or HBX, is an explosive used as a bursting charge in missile warheads, mines, depth bombs, depth charges, and torpedoes. It was developed
High_Blast_Explosive
Type of shell construction
'mine shot'), or high capacity high-explosive (HCHE) in British military nomenclature, is a military explosive shell type characterized by thin (usually
Mine_shell
Type of physical trauma
injuries occur with the detonation of high-order explosives as well as the deflagration of low order explosives. These injuries are compounded when the explosion
Blast_injury
US Army bomb disposal personnel
Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) in the United States Army is the specialization responsible for detecting, identifying, evaluating, rendering safe,
Explosive ordnance disposal (United States Army)
Explosive_ordnance_disposal_(United_States_Army)
Specialized body armor for protection from explosions
A bomb suit, explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) suit or a blast suit is a heavy suit of body armor designed to withstand the pressure generated by a bomb
Bomb_suit
List of large explosions
intentional, caused by modern high explosives, boiling liquid expanding vapour explosions (BLEVEs), older explosives such as gunpowder, volatile petroleum-based
Largest artificial non-nuclear explosions
Largest_artificial_non-nuclear_explosions
Device that initiates sudden release of heat and gas
In an explosive, pyrotechnic device, or military munition, a fuse (or fuze) is the part of the device that initiates function. In common usage, the word
Fuse_(explosives)
Improvised explosive device
truck bomb, also known as a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED), is an improvised explosive device designed to be detonated in an automobile
Car_bomb
Characteristic of explosions
through a detonated explosive. Explosive velocities are always higher than the local speed of sound in the material. If the explosive is confined before
Detonation_velocity
Non-destructive inspection process
Explosive detection is a non-destructive inspection process to determine whether a container contains explosive material. Explosive detection is commonly
Explosive_detection
Role in Australian Defence Force
Weapons and Explosive Ordnance (CGWEO) is a three-star role within the Australian Defence Force (ADF), responsible for guided weapons and explosive ordnance
Chief of Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordnance
Chief_of_Guided_Weapons_and_Explosive_Ordnance
Fuel-sensitized explosive mixture
A water-gel explosive is a fuel-sensitized explosive mixture consisting of an aqueous ammonium nitrate solution that acts as the oxidizer. Water gels that
Water_gel_explosive
for various high explosive compounds. Detonation velocity is the speed with which the detonation shock wave travels through the explosive. It is a key, directly
Table of explosive detonation velocities
Table_of_explosive_detonation_velocities
Pyrotechnic device
Federal Explosives Laws and Regulations (ATF P 5400.7)". ATF.gov. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. ATF Fact Sheet - Illegal Explosives Devices
Quarter_stick
Pyrotechnic device used at parties
by means of a small, friction-actuated explosive charge that is activated by pulling a string. The explosive charge comes from a very small amount of
Party_popper
Class of explosives
Sprengel explosives are a generic class of materials invented by Hermann Sprengel in the 1870s. They consist of stoichiometric mixtures of strong oxidisers
Sprengel_explosive
1933 film
I'm an Explosive is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Adrian Brunel and starring William Hartnell, Gladys Jennings and Eliot Makeham. It was written
I'm_an_Explosive
1997 EP by The Future Sound of London
"We Have Explosive" is a song by The Future Sound of London, released in 1997. It was the band's most successful single, getting to number 12 in the UK
We_Have_Explosive
2004 Hong Kong film by Sam Leong
Explosive City is a 2004 Hong Kong action film written, produced and directed by Sam Leong and starring Simon Yam, Alex Fong, Hisako Shirata and Sonny
Explosive_City
Detection technology
Explosive vapor detectors (EVD) are explosives detection instruments whose principle of operation is the selective analysis of collected vapor samples
Explosive_vapor_detector
Type of truck used to move explosives
An explosives truck is a type of specially designed trucks, in order to move explosives. Containers containing explosives are loaded and unloaded according
Explosives_truck
Maximum-intensity explosive exercises
cycle. While commonly associated with jumping, plyometrics can include explosive upper-body movements, such as plyometric push-ups and switch-ups, with
Plyometrics
Explosive weapon
Dense inert metal explosive (DIME) is an experimental type of explosive that has a relatively small but effective blast radius. It is manufactured by
Dense_inert_metal_explosive
Carbonite was one of the earliest and most successful coal-mining explosives. It is made from such ingredients as nitroglycerin, wood meal, and some nitrate
Carbonite_(explosive)
Munitions designed to withstand heat, shock, and nearby explosions
insensitive high explosives (IHE) such as triaminotrinitrobenzene (TATB) or various insensitive explosive mixtures, or plastic/polymer-bonded explosives, which
Insensitive_munition
Explosion in the United States
Bucksnort, was used for the manufacture, storage, and research of high explosives for the Department of Defense and various other customers. Accurate Energetic
2025 Tennessee manufacturing plant explosion
2025_Tennessee_manufacturing_plant_explosion
Type of explosive
Tonite is an explosive sometimes used in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It consists of a mixture of equal weights of barium nitrate and guncotton
Tonite_(explosive)
EXPLOSIVE
EXPLOSIVE
Boy/Male
Hindu
Kind, Explosive, A dynamic person
Boy/Male
Tamil
Kind, Explosive, A dynamic person
Boy/Male
Hindu
Kind, Explosive, A dynamic person
Boy/Male
Arabic, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Muslim, Mythological, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu
Fireworks; Explosive; Dynamic Person; Name of Lord Ganesh
Boy/Male
Bengali, Hindu, Indian, Jain, Kannada, Marathi, Parsi, Sanskrit, Telugu
Fire; Splendor; Explosive; Dynamic
Boy/Male
Tamil
Kind, Explosive, A dynamic person
EXPLOSIVE
EXPLOSIVE
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Sanskrit
Guarded by the Gods
Girl/Female
Hindu
Name of a God
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Marathi, Telugu
Lord Vishnu
Boy/Male
American, British, English
From the Oak Tree Meadow
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Rolfe.North German : variant of Ruoff.
Girl/Female
Spanish Latin
Lucky.
Girl/Female
Celtic Scandinavian Irish
Strong.
Girl/Female
African, Hindu, Indian
Crown
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Iles.Hungarian (Illés) : from the old ecclesiastical name Illés, variant of Éliás, Hungarian form of Elijah.German : patronymic from the personal name Ille, one of several vernacular forms of Aegidius (see Giles).
Girl/Female
Tamil
Sleep
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EXPLOSIVE
n.
A hollow projectile, of various shapes, adapted for a mortar or a cannon, and containing an explosive substance, ignited with a fuse or by percussion, by means of which the projectile is burst and its fragments scattered. See Bomb.
n.
An explosive nitro derivative of certain sugars, analogous to nitroglycerin, gun cotton, etc.
n.
A nitro derivative of methane, analogous to chloroform, obtained as a colorless oily or crystalline substance, CH.(NO2)3, quite explosive, and having well-defined acid properties.
n.
An explosive shell. See Marron, 3.
n.
An explosive cartridge or shell lowered or dropped into a bored oil well, and there exploded, to clear the well of obstructions or to open communication with a source of supply of oil.
n.
A quantity of explosives anchored in a channel, beneath the water, or set adrift in a current, and so arranged that they will be exploded when touched by a vessel, or when an electric circuit is closed by an operator on shore.
n.
An explosive agent; a compound or mixture susceptible of a rapid chemical reaction, as gunpowder, or nitro-glycerine.
a.
A paper or pasteboard box or shell, wound about with strong twine, filled with an explosive, and ignited with a fuse, -- used to make a noise like a cannon.
adv.
In an explosive manner.
n.
An explosive compound of nitroglycerin. See Nitroglycerin.
n.
A missile weapon, particularly a ball or bullet; specifically, whatever is discharged as a projectile from firearms or cannon by the force of an explosive.
n.
A picrate compound, used as an explosive in blasting.
n.
A liquid appearing like a heavy oil, colorless or yellowish, and consisting of a mixture of several glycerin salts of nitric acid, and hence more properly called glycerin nitrate. It is made by the action of nitric acid on glycerin in the presence of sulphuric acid. It is extremely unstable and terribly explosive. A very dilute solution is used in medicine as a neurotic under the name of glonion.
n.
An explosive consisting of gun cotton and camphor dissolved in nitroglycerin.
n.
An explosive compound; a preparation of gun cotton.
n.
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. [See Guide to Pronunciation, Ã 155-7, 184.]
n.
An explosive containing nitroglycerin. It is used in blasting.
a.
Driving or bursting out with violence and noise; causing explosion; as, the explosive force of gunpowder.
n.
An explosive of great destructive power; -- so called from its color, which resembles honey.
n.
A kind of small submarine boat carrying an explosive charge, and projected from a ship against another ship at a distance, or made self-propelling, and otherwise automatic in its action against a distant ship.