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Explosives, as to injuries by, see the Malicious Damage Act, 1861, ss. 9, 10; the Offences against the Person Act, 1861, ss. 28-30, 64, 65; Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Criminal Law.'The (English) Explosives Act, 1875 (38 Vict. c. 17), as amended and extended by the (English) Explosives Act, 1923 (13 & 14 Geo. 5, c. 17), regulates the manufacture, keeping, sale, and conveyance of gunpowder and other explosives, and the licensing and management of stores, defining 'explosive' in that Act as meaning:gunpowder, nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gun-cotton, blasting powders, fulminate mercury or of other metals, coloured fires, and every other substance, whether similar to those above mentioned or not, used or manufactured with a view to produce a practical effect by explosion or a pyrotechnic effect;And as including:For signals, fireworks, fuses, rockets, percussion caps, detonators, cartridges, ammunition of all descriptions, and every adaptation or preparation of an explosive as above defined.The ...
Explosive substance
Explosive substance, include any materials for mak-ing any explosive substance, also any apparatus, machine, implement or material used, or intended to be used, or adapted for causing, or aiding in causing, any explosion in or with any explosive substance; also any part of any such apparatus, machine or implement, S.K. Shukla v. State of Uttar Pradesh, (2006) 1 SCC 314. (Explosive Substance Act, 1908, s. 2)It has a broader and more comprehensive meaning than the term 'Explosive'. 'Explosive substance' includes 'Explosive'. The dictionary meaning of the word 'explosive' is 'tending to expand suddenly with loud noise, 'tending to cause explosion' (The Concise Oxford Dictionary), Mohd Usman Mohd Hussain Maniyar v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1981 SC 1062 (1065). [Explosive Substance Act, (6 of 1908), ss. 5, 2]...
Boiler Explosions Act
Boiler Explosions Act, 1882 (English) (45 & 46Vict. c. 22), whereby detailed notice of an explosion from any boiler, i.e. (s. 3), 'any closed vessel used for generating steam, or for heating water, or for heating other liquids, or into which steam is admitted for heating, steaming, boiling, or other similar purposes,' must be sent within 24 hours by the 'owner or user,' or their agent, to the Board of Trade, who have power to order an inquiry with respect to the explosion. Boilers used exclusively for domestic purposes, and boilers used in the service of his Majesty or on board certificated steamships, were exempted from the Act, and so were some boiler explosions in mines, but an amending 'Boiler Explosions Act, 1890,' repeals these exemptions, except those for Crown and domestic boilers. A pipe may be a 'boiler' within this Act, R. v. Commissioners, (1891) 1 QB 703; but a boiler used for heating business premises in within the exception, Smith v. Muller, (1894) 1 QB 192....
Explosive
Explosive, means gunpowder, introglycerine, nitroglycol, gun-cotton, di-nitro-toluene, tri-nitro-toluene, picric acid, di-nitro-phenol, tri-nitro-resorcinol (styphnic acid), cyclo-trimethylene-tri-nitramine, penta-erythritol-tetranitrate, tetryl, nitro-guanidine, lead azide, lead styphynte, fulminate of mercury or any other metal, diazo-di-nitro-phenol, coloured fires or any other substance whether a single chemical compound or a mixture of substances, whether solid or liquid or gaseous used or manufactured with a view to produce a practical effect by explosion or pyrotechnic effect; and includes fog-signals, fireworks, fuses, rockets, percussion-caps, detonators, cartridges, ammuni-tion of all descriptions and every adaptation or preparation of an explosive as defined in this clause. [Explosives Act, 1884 (4 of 1884), s. 4 (d)]...
Explosive
Driving or bursting out with violence and noise causing explosion as the explosive force of gunpowder...
Favier explosive
Any of several explosive mixtures chiefly of ammonium nitrate and a nitrate derivative of naphthalene They are stable but require protection from moisture As prepared it is a compressed cylinder of the explosive filled with loose powder of the same composition all inclosed in waterproof wrappers It is used for mining...
nuclear explosion
The explosion of an atomic bomb or atomic device sometimes also used of fusion powered explosions...
Nuclear weapon or other nuclear explosive device
Nuclear weapon or other nuclear explosive device, means any nuclear weapon or other nuclear explosive device as may be determined by the Central Government, whose determination in the matter shall be final [Weapons of Mass Destruction and their Delivery Systems (Prohibitions of Unlawful Activities Act, 2005 (21 of 2005), s. 4(b)]...
Explosion
The act of exploding detonation a chemical action which causes the sudden formation of a great volume of expanded gas as the explosion of gunpowder of fire damp etc...
Explosively
In an explosive manner...
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