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Gun-cotton

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

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

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firework, but these have now been repealed, and the law relating to this subject amended by the (English) Explosives Act, 1875 (amended by the Explosives Act, 1923).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

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Explodent

An instrument or agent causing explosion an exploder also an explosive

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

Internal combustion

the heat or pressure energy necessary to produce motion is developed in the engine cylinder as by the explosion of a gas and not in a separate chamber as in a steam engine boiler The gas used

Otto cycle

four stroke cycle for internal combustion engines consisting of the following operations First stroke suction into cylinder of explosive charge as of gas and air second stroke compression ignition and explosion of this charge third stroke the

brisance

the shattering or crushing effect of a sudden release of energy as in an explosion used especially as a measure of such a shattering power applied to high explosives

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

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

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