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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, this means a capsule or case which is of such strength and construction and contains explosive of the fulminate - explosive class in such quantity that the explosion of one capsule or case will communicate the explosion to other like capsule or cases, Halsbury's Laws of England (18), para 7, p. 8...

mercury fulminate

The mercury salt of fulminic acid HgCNO2 called 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 by a blow...

fulminate of mercury

The mercury salt of 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...

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 magnetic counter mine may allow the passagw of several ships before detonating...

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