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Explosive compound   /ɪksplˈoʊsɪv kˈɑmpaʊnd/   Listen
Explosive compound

noun
1.
A compound that is explosive.






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"Explosive compound" Quotes from Famous Books



... Keating, Vanuxen, Seybert, Booth, Clemson, Litton, and Moss, would fill many volumes. In organic chemistry, the researches of Clark, Hare, and Boye were rewarded by the discovery of a new ether, the most explosive compound known to man. Mitchell's experiments on the penetration of membranes by gases, and the ingenious extension of them by Dr. Rogers, are worthy of all praise. The softening of indiarubber, by Dr. Mitchell, renders it a most useful article. Dyer's discovery ...
— Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy. • Various

... which was resting against a cleat on the rail. He fired, and the projectile, attached to a long line, entered the whale's body. The shell, filled with an explosive compound, burst, and shot out a small harpoon with two branches, which fastened into ...
— Rubur the Conqueror • Jules Verne



Words linked to "Explosive compound" :   cordite, plastique, plastic explosive, trinitrotoluene, dynamite, TNT, explosive



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