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US
/ɪksˈpɫoʊsɪv/
]
[ UK /ɛksplˈəʊsɪv/ ]
[ UK /ɛksplˈəʊsɪv/ ]
NOUN
- a chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck
ADJECTIVE
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sudden and loud
an explosive laugh -
liable to lead to sudden change or violence
an explosive issue
a volatile situation with troops and rioters eager for a confrontation -
serving to explode or characterized by explosion or sudden outburst
an explosive temper
an explosive device
explosive violence
explosive gas
explosive force
How To Use explosive In A Sentence
- Perhaps in their heyday around 2006-2007, they were overwhelmed with the explosive rowth, however it was reported that prior to the recent management shuffling, they had a 1000 employees? Why MySpace Is Really GeoCities 2.0
- Targeting pod-equipped aircraft can make pre-raid surveillance videos, check for improvised explosive devices (IEDs), track targets such as gunmen or vehicles, and send information to ground units.
- Chapter VI. that the use of metallic copper in the construction of acetylene apparatus is not permissible or judicious, because the gas is liable to form therewith an explosive compound known as copper acetylide; it might seem, therefore, that the employment of a copper salt for purification courts accident. Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use
- Assistant Secretary Owen said the latest estimates are that 35,000 civilians were able to flee the area Monday when government forces used explosives to create a gap in an "earthwork" wall a few miles long constructed by the Tigers using mechanical diggers. FOXNews.com
- The burpee is a calisthenic exercise performed to increase strength and explosiveness.
- Where destruction pure and simple is desired, the shell is charged with a high explosive such as picric acid or T.N.T., the colloquial abbreviation for the devastating agent scientifically known as "Trinitrotoluene," the base of which, in common with all the high explosives used by the different powers and variously known as lyddite, melinite, cheddite, and so forth, is picric acid. Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War
- At the head, they may have some explosives which are triggered by a crude fuze consisting of a bullet. Israeli TV airs call to father after children killed « Antiwar.com Blog
- The waste from a defunct reactor is full of plutonium, a highly toxic metal used as the explosive in atomic bombs.
- He also outlined plans to use more sniffer dogs to detect explosives. The Sun
- (If you are willing to postulate a matter-antimatter explosive, aka a positronium bomb, then P can increase by the maximal amount from 0 to e/3.) Dark Matter: Still Existing
