How To Use High explosive In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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The want of an unlimited supply of high explosive was a fatal bar to our success.
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That night airships dropped high explosive bombs and incendiaries on Bradley, Tipton, Wednesbury and Walsall.
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Weaponized uranium metal bombs detonated with high explosives create tiny aerosols of burning uranium oxides and uranium nitrides.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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Fighter aircraft rained down high explosives.
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Both tanks contained full combat loads of high explosive rounds, as well as .50 caliber and 7.62 rounds.
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It could be anything, from tiny fractions of a gram to hundreds of pounds of high explosives.
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When mixed with oil or wax, high explosives become like clay.
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Fighter aircraft rained down high explosives.
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The missiles are filled with volatile rocket fuel and two hundred kilograms of high explosives.
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Most of the shells fired by artillery guns were high explosive shells which could throw shrapnel over a wide distance in the trenches.
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Mixed into the ear-splitting crack of high explosive they now heard the softer ` phut " of gas shells.
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Each man in the squad was dressed in a wetsuit and carried a pack of high explosives on their electric water scooter.
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Machine-guns, gas, high explosives, flame-throwers and air attacks slaughtered the lines of men marching out of the trenches.
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The want of an unlimited supply of high explosive was a fatal bar to our success.
Times, Sunday Times
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This encyclopedia entry says RDX "is considered the most powerful and brisant of the military high explosives.
Hullabaloo
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The blast of high explosive sent a cloud of dust fountaining into the air.
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The high explosive fragmentation warhead is fitted with an active laser proximity fuse.
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Doyle you do realize that one of those speedboats packed with C4 or some equivalent high explosive is essentially a seaborn missle?
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The court heard that the bomb contained high explosives that were normally used for mining explosions in Northern Ireland.
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Smoke shell, in combination with high explosive, helped the infantry see where the artillery barrage had got to, and it also hid them from machine guns and rifle fire.
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The builders of these bombs wouldn't have much trouble getting their hands on high explosives - dynamite is readily available, and TNT isn't too hard to come by.
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The plane dropped a total of 608,000 tons of high explosive bombs and more than 51 million incendiary bombs.
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Every one of these men had a story to tell of terror by day and by night, of ceaseless attacks with flame-throwers, tanks and self propelling guns firing high explosive and armour-piercing shells.
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Mixed into the ear-splitting crack of high explosive they now heard the softer `phut" of gas shells.
DARE CALL IT TREASON
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The presence of aluminum and iron oxide in the red material provided one of the signs that it might be nano-thermite, which is a high explosive (whereas ordinary thermite is an incendiary.)
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Charging the drill hole with a high explosive blasting cartridge and detonator with electric ignition or ignitor fuse, by using a tamping stick or charging machine.
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The first modern instance was in 1944-45, when the US navy was confronted by kamikaze pilots trying to fly planes loaded with high explosive into their ships as they approached Japan.
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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
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What otherwise would have been absolute silence was broken by terrific detonations of high explosive shells.
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The battalion was shelled intermittently with high explosive and shrapnel.
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Each missile contained 44 kg of high explosives and 498 kg of rocket fuel.
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The Eksund's cargo had included surface-to-air missiles, mortar shells, rocket launchers and semtex high explosive.
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We have the equivalent of four tons of high explosives for every person on earth.
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The pellets simultaneously explode to initiate the entire outer surface of a high explosive component in hemispherical form under the shell.
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What otherwise would have been absolute silence was broken by terrific detonations of high explosive shells.
Times, Sunday Times
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Machine-guns, gas, high explosives, flame-throwers and air attacks slaughtered the lines of men marching out of the trenches.
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The reason for the replacement is that IMX-101 is even more stable than TNT, which when invented was hailed as famously insensitive to shock and other conditions which would reliably detonate other high explosives of the day such as guncotton and nitroglycerine.
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Most of the shells fired by artillery guns were high explosive shells which could throw shrapnel over a wide distance in the trenches.
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The Eksund's cargo had included surface-to-air missiles, mortar shells, rocket launchers and semtex high explosive.
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The tube is then subjected to a detonative shock from a high explosive donor charge.
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An exact mix of high explosive and incendiary bombs was used to start the kind of fires that burned Dresden.
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The first step in detonating a thermonuclear weapon is to ignite the high explosive that causes a shock wave to travel inward and compress the nuclear material the explosive surrounds, known as the pit.
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Gold-bearing rock is blown apart by high explosives and small groups of miners then move in to drill at the face.
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In the Underground they were safe from the high explosive and incendiary bombs that rained down on London night after night.
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An assault weapon the Marines were using had been armed with warheads containing ‘about 35 percent thermobaric novel explosive and 65 percent standard high explosive.’
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Like other high explosives, derivatives have their uses.
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However, nothing happened until about 9.00 am when the capital was attacked with both incendiary and high explosive bombs.
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The dirty bomb was made from a material called radioactive zirconium which was packed into a bomb casing with high explosives.
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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
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But even with high explosive dual-purpose projectiles, it lacks sufficient penetration of concrete and masonry.
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And then the crash of high explosive bombs, bursting in harrow-tooth lines across the city.
Blinds Up In Britain
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Equally important was the ‘air defence oath’ which urged citizens to stand their ground in the face of incendiary or high explosive bombs.
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The business end of Hanky Panky Paulson’s bazooka is glowing red hot as it continues to fire round after round of high explosive moral hazard contains an up to 85 billion dollar, two-year bridge loan from the Fed to the world’s largest insurer, AIG, to be guaranteed by the US taxpayer via the US Treasury.
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For example, his five divisions had only 118 guns each - a third of the standard number; there was an almost total lack of howitzers, trench mortars, grenades and high explosive ammunition.
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Most of the shells fired by artillery guns were high explosive shells which could throw shrapnel over a wide distance in the trenches.
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The second night attack, which used high explosive and incendiary bombs alternately, caused the first man-made firestorm which affected an area of 22sq.km.
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The latest technology of death - incendiary bombs and high explosives - rained down on unprotected people for three hours.
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The blast of high explosive sent a cloud of dust fountaining into the air.
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That night airships dropped high explosive bombs and incendiaries on Bradley, Tipton, Wednesbury and Walsall.
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Figure 1 a shows the altitude profile of energy release in units of Mton high explosive equivalent per kilometre.
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The redoubts were shelled while I slept and one high explosive landed just behind the parados beside the bomb supply.
The 5th Seaforth Highlanders in the trenches
