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Wiktionary
n. A highly malleable general purpose plastic explosive.
Wikipedia
Semtex is a general-purpose plastic explosive containing RDX and PETN. It is used in commercial blasting, demolition, and in certain military applications. Semtex became notoriously popular with terrorists because it was, until recently, extremely difficult to detect, as in the case of Pan Am Flight 103.
For its original military use it was manufactured under the name B 1. It has been manufactured in Czechoslovakia under its current name since 1964, labeled as SEMTEX 1A, since 1967 as SEMTEX H and since 1987 as SEMTEX 10.
Semtex is a brand of energy drink manufactured in the Czech Republic by Pinelli since 1995, and was the first such drink to be produced in the country. The drink gained notoriety after taking its name from Semtex, a well-known plastic explosive, which is also of Czechoslovak origin.
Semtex is a general-purpose plastic explosive.
Semtex may also refer to:
- Semtex (album), a 1996 album by The Third Eye Foundation
- Semtex (drink), a taurine-containing energy drink manufactured in the Czech Republic
- DJ Semtex, a BBC hip-hop disc jockey and producer from the UK
- Paul "Semtex" Daley (b. 1983), a British mixed martial artist
Semtex is the first album by Bristol, UK musician Matt Elliott. It was released in 1996 under the name The Third Eye Foundation. It was released on Matt Elliott's own personal record label, Linda's Strange Vacation with the support of Domino recordings. It was recorded on a 4 track recorder. Along with a mix of guitars, drum machines and noise samples, the album features the voice of Debbie Parsons.
Usage examples of "semtex".
He began sawing through a wrapped brick of Semtex with a butterknife from the kitchen drawer.
He'd wanted, I suppose, to go through the whole thing with me, enjoying the role of tutor, bringing his sweet smile to bear upon the business of trading a consignment of Heckler and Koch HK91s for a dozen bags of cocaine on the dockside in Istanbul, or of buying Semtex by the square yard without blowing up the freighter.
It took only a few more minutes to deflate and remove the inner tubes, stuff them in a carryall, return to the hotel, and strip away the melded Semtex that lined them.
Dillon fired another burst from his Uzi into the corridor, then put it down again, took a quarter block of Semtex from one of his pouches, jammed it on the windowsill against the bars, and rammed in a two-second pencil timer.