Nitroglycerin or dynamite

Usage examples of explosive.

There were some packages of pre-fabricated explosives with amatol, primer and chemical detonator combined in one neat unit with a miniature timing device that ranged from five seconds to five minutes, complete with sucker clamps.

One box contained black blasting powder, another beehive blocks of amatol explosive and a drum of .

The compounding was easy, a four-to-one mixture of ammonium nitrate and TNT produces a good facsimile of Amatol, the best military-industrial explosive for large-scale demolition work.

Those cones you see embedded in the canvas strap contain some conventional explosives - TNT amatol, anyway something of the requisite power.

Zelzony has settled to a painful brood over her explosive and ambivalent emotions, trying to wrestle them into a shape more pleasing to her and more conducive to maintaining her self-esteem.

I have taped a virus ampoule to a simple explosive device which will be detonated at 3.

The British also conducted anthrax experiments during World War II, detonating explosive shells filled with anthrax spores on an island off the coast of Scotland.

This new framework forces us to confront a series of explosive aporias, because in this new juridical and institutional world being formed our ideas and practices of justice and our means of hope are thrown into question.

I flipped the med with my nose so that its explosive injector sleeve faced up, then fell on my face, shooting the antivenin into my numb cheek.

The barghest recognized the explosive rage in this drow and had felt the sharp bite of the scimitar.

Instead of saving each weapon for a point-blank chill as he had been told to do, Mitchum instead gambled on a two-step barrage of high explosives.

So from the moment of battening down, the gas which oozed from the coal mixed with the air till the whole ship became one huge explosive bomb, which the merest spark would touch off.

From the gentle planet Aurora to the steamy rainforests of a distant cosmos, Dez and Blaise are caught in a web of treachery, seduction and explosive passion that sweeps them beyond danger, beyond desire, and beyond the moon and stars.

It had to carry agricultural implements, heavy machinery, structural steel, pipes and pipe fittings, a bounteous supply of basic chemicals, fertilizers, and explosives.

Culminating in a final terrible moment when all is revealed, Brat Farrar is a precarious adventure that grips the reader early and firmly and then holds on until the explosive conclusion.