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Dangerous business

Dangerous business, means the business of the manufacture of matches or of other substances liable to sudden explosion, inflammation or ignition or of turpentine, naphtha, varnish, tar, resin or Brunswick black or any other manufacture dangerous

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

Nuclear weapon

A weapon of great explosive power such as an atomic bomb or a hydrogen bomb which depends for most of its explosive power

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Dynamite

Dynamite. The storage and carriage of dynamite is regulated by the Explosives Act, 1875. The use of it in public fisheries was prohibited by the Fisheries Dynamite Act, 1877, extended

Fireworks

firework, but these have now been repealed, and the law relating to this subject amended by the (English) Explosives Act, 1875 (amended by the Explosives Act, 1923). Any person throwing, casting, or firing any fireworks in or

Gun-cotton

Gun-cotton. As to the making, sale, etc., of gun-cotton, see the Explosives Act, 1875 and tit. EXPLOSIVES.

Gunpowder

Gunpowder. As to the making, keeping, sale, and carriage of gunpowder, see the Explosives Act, 1875, as amended by the Act of 1923. See EXPLOSIVES. As to the exportation of gunpowder, see

Nitro-glycerine

Nitro-glycerine. See the Explosives Act,1875, and EXPLOSIVES.

Dualin

saturated with nitroglycerin and other similar nitro compounds It is inferior to dynamite and is more liable to explosion

Accident

only of war or radioactivity. [Public Liability Insurance Act, 1991 (6 of 1991), s. 2 (a)] Means an explosion of a boiler or steam-pipe or any damage to a boiler or steam-pipe which is calculated to weaken