WordNet
n. a mixture that is explosive
Usage examples of "explosive mixture".
A few people, none closer than half a block away, would remember the vehicle, a small white delivery truck that had been big enough to contain half a ton of AMFO, an explosive mixture composed of nitrogen-based fertilizer and diesel fuel.
But as the canisters began to disperse the deadly high-explosive mixture, the Stinger missile exploded.
I checked that the bomb was all right, especially that the white crystals of the explosive mixture were dry, then added a plastic-straw fuse and a charge of the explosive around the hole bored in the black pipe and taped everything up.
As the quantity was so small, it could not have formed an explosive mixture with the air inside.
These gases combined in the proportion produced by electrolysis formed an explosive mixture of creditable blasting power.
He hadn't known what an explosive mixture grief and rage and hate could be till it overwhelmed him.
Since the introduction of controls necessitates and leads to further controls, it is an unstable, explosive mixture which, ultimately, has to repeal the controls or collapse into dictatorship.
Certainly no one else in the world could make an explosive mixture out of common sand and water.
Relief and anger fused into an explosive mixture that made his heart thump so hard he thought he was going to be sick.
When an explosive mixture was reached, the pilot light of the stove was waiting, ready to set it off.
The dust swirling in the air above and around Bravo One and Two, according to spectroscopic analysis, is composed primarily of one- to ten-micron-sized flecks of titanium steel alloy, ferrocrete, concrete, depleted uranium, and ceramplast composites, distributed as an aerosol cloud offering all of the prime requisites for a fuel-air explosive mixture.