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High explosive   /haɪ ɪksplˈoʊsɪv/   Listen
High explosive

noun
1.
A powerful chemical explosive that produces gas at a very high rate.





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"High explosive" Quotes from Famous Books



... little squares and oblongs, each described with a letter and number. These were for the guiding of the guns — because, for each tiny square on the German side of the lines, there was a battery or a couple of batteries behind the French front, whose business was solely to sweep that square with high explosive shells, gas shells and shrapnel, when the ...
— The Boy Allies with Haig in Flanders • Clair W. Hayes
... how careless of danger people become. In the afternoon while I was out riding the Huns started shelling the station and town. Half a dozen British Howitzers 9.2 inch guns started to reply. The German high explosive shells, or "Hiex" as they were called there, were falling five or six hundred yards off, still the children were playing in the street and a bunch of little girls were skipping with a rope. That night ...
— The Red Watch - With the First Canadian Division in Flanders • J. A. Currie


Words linked to "High explosive" :   low explosive, weapon of mass destruction, disrupting explosive, W.M.D., explosive, WMD, bursting explosive


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