What is "plastique"

Usage examples of "plastique".

The explosive found had some components in common with plastique, but there were some anomalies.

She had no idea if guncotton lost its ginger over the decades the way black powder did, but the C-4 plastique sealed safe inside the airtight warheads of the big 40 mm Bofor rounds should be strong as ever.

Ryan dry swallowed the pills and tucked the whitish-gray lump of plastique in his cheek.

Next, came a windfall as an entire box of timing pencils for C-4 was discovered, but no plastique itself.

The satchel charge held twenty pounds of plastique, confined between the forty-four ton weight of the tank and the unyielding ground.

I unwrapped the plastique and molded one block into a niche high in the wall, just a few feet back from the point at which that shaft opened into the domed chamber.

Climbing the makeshift step stool, I molded the plastique into depressions in the roughly hewn rock directly above each of the elevator openings.

Four times I lifted Rya while she hastily molded a charge of plastique between the pipes and plugged a detonator into it.

We paused only to plug detonators into the four kilos of plastique that we had previously molded around sheaves of water, gas, and other pipes that crossed or paralleled some portions of the tunnels.

We crossed the domed chamber, pausing four times to deposit the last four kilos of plastique among the machinery.

The remaining charges of plastique were detonating in a single tremendous barrage, of which we heard steadily less even as we felt more.

Damn, the whole mountain seemed to be quaking, its foundations shaken by massively violent tremors that could not have been induced by the plastique alone.

Bernard tore a corner from the brick of plastique and rolled it into a ball.

The warehouse is full of weapons, ammo, incendiaries, plastique, grenades, rockets.

In Plastique you found the results of some of the more extreme surgical makeovers.