Explosive

(noun.) a chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck.

(adj.) serving to explode or characterized by explosion or sudden outburst; 'an explosive device'; 'explosive gas'; 'explosive force'; 'explosive violence'; 'an explosive temper' .

(adj.) sudden and loud; 'an explosive laugh' .

(adj.) liable to lead to sudden change or violence; 'an explosive issue'; 'a volatile situation with troops and rioters eager for a confrontation' .

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• It was still full of explosive. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Other shells have been invented carrying a high explosive and capable of penetrating armour plates of great thickness, and exploding after such penetration has taken place. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Mr. Bounderby closed the door, and stood before the fire; projecting himself after his old explosive manner into his portrait—and into futurity. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• In the last decade many applications of the explosive gas engine to road carriages and tricycles have been made, especially in France. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Before that time it seemed impossible that explosive gases would ever be harnessed as steam had been and made to do continual successful work in a cylinder and behind a piston. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• In automobiles of the explosive gas type probably the earliest example is found in the British patent to Pinkus, No. 8,207, of 1839. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Why, mother, said Mr. Farebrother, after an explosive laugh, you know very well that Lydgate is of a good family in the North. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I watched the ties and the rails for any trip-wires or signs of explosive but I saw nothing. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• This was followed by the discovery of nitro-glycerine, a still more powerful explosive agent--too powerful and uncontrollable for guns as originally made. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The gasoline used also gave off a gas of highly explosive character and one very likely to escape from leaky tanks or joints. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• This explosive seems to have been known in China long before knowledge of it reached the west, but we do not know to what extent it was developed and used in that country. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• But in fact such activity is explosive, and due to maladjustment with surroundings. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• At No. 4 liquid air imprisoned in a tube and tightly corked up, blows the stopper out in a few minutes with explosive effect. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Besides its use as an explosive, gun cotton when dissolved in ether has found an important application as collodion in the art of photography. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• When in position and ready for work a few moments will suffice to bore the holes, apply the explosive and blast the ledge. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• No coherent history of firearms and explosives is possible in any short review. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• A suggestive application of the terrible power of these explosives is in submarine mines. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• It may also be used for transporting troops past danger points, and for transporting explosives or other perishable material which might be damaged by fire from the ends. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Not only was her agriculture thereby threatened with a great decrease in crop production but her supply of military explosives was also threatened. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Among the high explosives of more recent date may be mentioned: _Tonite_ (gun cotton and barium nitrate), British patents No. 3,612, of 1874, and No. 2,742, of 1876. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Many striking examples of the power of explosives have been accidentally furnished of late, in the course of making munitions for the European war. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• These and other objections, such as the omission of explosives, firearms, paper, will readily occur to the reader. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The ammonia can in turn be oxidized to nitric acid, which is the basis of all explosives. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• She is using it both to grow crops and to make explosives for her guns. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Strange, is it not, that a race still using cross-bows in its army should have known of explosives long before the Christian Era, and perhaps as far back as the time of Moses? 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The construction of metals, both for cannon to resist most intense explosives and for plates to resist the penetration of the best projectiles, have received great attention. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• In 1846 a new and distinct development in explosives was made in the discovery of gun cotton by Sch?nbein, and of nitro-glycerine in 1847 by Sobrero. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Other men enter the arena on foot, armed with red flags and explosives about the size of a musket cartridge. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Huge shells filled with high explosives from these mammoth guns rapidly destroyed the most modern and powerful fortifications known at the beginning of the great war. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It is there the defenders are armed with the irresistible explosives. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

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