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Detonation

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

Explosives

Explosives, as to injuries by, see the Malicious Damage Act, 1861, ss. 9, 10; the Offences against the Person

Factory Acts, see that title, and consult Notcutt on the Factory and Workshop Acts. In relation to an explosive includes the process of--component parts or otherwise breaking up or unmaking the explosive, or making fit for use

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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

Detonator

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

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

Flameproof enclosure

machinery or apparatus that will withstand, when the covers or other access doors are properly secured, an internal explosion of the inflammable gas or vapour which may enter or originate inside the enclosure, without suffering damage and

Nitro-glycerine

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

Gun-cotton

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

brisance

energy as in an explosion used especially as a measure of such a shattering power applied to high explosives

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