How To Use high explosive In A Sentence
- 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
- Police traced the student through a mobile-phone number on a receipt for the packages, which both contained computer printer cartridges stuffed with high explosive. Times, Sunday Times
- The want of an unlimited supply of high explosive was a fatal bar to our success. Times, Sunday Times
- That night airships dropped high explosive bombs and incendiaries on Bradley, Tipton, Wednesbury and Walsall.
- Weaponized uranium metal bombs detonated with high explosives create tiny aerosols of burning uranium oxides and uranium nitrides. Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab's 200 Executioners Ready
- Details are sketchy, but it seems that on Thursday, two trains carrying high explosives were being shunted in a freight yard, when they came into contact with a power line.
- N.cessity did not call the phonograph into being, nor the incandescent light, but the high explosives, dynamite and T.N. T. (trinitrotoluol) met real wants. The Last Harvest
- In lab experiments, SPAMS was tested against four types of materials terrorists might use - spores of a non-pathogenic strain of Bacillus anthracis (anthrax); diethyl phthalate (a nerve agent surrogate), natural cobalt powder (a surrogate for Cobalt 60 and other radioactive metals) and RDX (a high explosive). SPAMS - a Universal Detection System for Threats
- Fighter aircraft rained down high explosives.
- Both tanks contained full combat loads of high explosive rounds, as well as .50 caliber and 7.62 rounds.
