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Detonator

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Detonating

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Detonization

The act of detonizing detonation

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Detonate

To explode with a sudden report as niter detonates with sulphur

Detonation

An explosion or sudden report made by the instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances as the detonation of gun cotton

Detonize

To explode or cause to explode to burn with an explosion to detonate

Detonator

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mercury fulminate

also fulminate of mercury It is an explosive compound prepared as gray crystals and is used primarily in detonators for detonating high explosives such as dynamite or TNT It is sensitive to shock and may be detonated

magnetic mine

A marine mine that is detonated by a mechanism that detects the nearness of magnetic material as the steel hull of a ship A

fulminate of mercury

fulminic acid HgCNO2 called also mercury fulminate It is prepared as gray crystals and is used primarily in detonators for detonating high explosives such as dynamite or TNT

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