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explosive device

n. device that bursts with sudden violence from internal energy

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Explosive device

An explosive device is device that relies on the exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide a violent release of energy.

Applications of explosive devices include:

  • Building implosion ( demolition)
  • Excavation
  • Explosive forming
  • Explosive welding
  • Mining
  • Murder
    • Assassination
  • Riot control
  • Terrorism
  • War

Types of explosive devices include:

  • Explosive weapon
    • Anti-personnel mine
    • Artillery shells
    • Bomb
    • Grenade
    • Improvised explosive device
    • Land mine
    • Nuclear explosive device
    • Unexploded ordnance
  • Car bomb
  • Letter bomb
  • Stun grenade
  • Some pyrotechnics
    • Fireworks
  • Explosively pumped flux compression generator
  • Explosive-driven ferroelectric generator

Category:Demolition

Usage examples of "explosive device".

Even though, in broad daylight, I'd stopped staring at shadows I opened the hood all the same but no one had fixed any lethal explosive device during the night so I drove off and arrived at the Marnixstraat HQ at precisely ten o'clock, the promised time.

Carelessness there may have been but the idea of the deliberate implantation of any explosive device passes belief.

But I do have a legitimate interest in sealed, Cardassian boxes that might contain anything-such as a new plague virus or explosive device.

From one of his untold shadowy sources, John had heard whispers there was a new type of explosive device that airport X-ray machines couldn't detect, not even the CTX-5000 machines such as were used in Atlanta.

No wonder no door had been programmed to seal itself behind him, no explosive device to go off beneath his booted feet or at his approach.

He stuck that to the wall just below the explosive device, then surveyed the room for one last time.

Now, if the explosive device was planted in Quantum House between four when the gardener usually left and six, when you might have returned from the races, we're back to the.

The uranium is bound for Tokyo where it will be used in some experiments, still in a preliminary phase, towards the construction of a new and extremely powerful explosive device.

Instead the form says I am complaining of malicious destruction of property, theft of property valued at more than $250, manufacturing an explosive device, placing an explosive device, assault with intent to murder with an explosive device—.