Usually means: Substances detonate rapidly, releasing energy.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. high explosives: Merriam-Webster
  2. high explosives: Collins English Dictionary
  3. high explosives: Vocabulary.com
  4. high-explosives: Wordnik
  5. high explosives: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. high explosives: Wiktionary
  7. High explosives: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. high explosives: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. high explosives: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. high explosives: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Explosives (No longer online)

(Note: See high_explosive as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (high explosive)

noun:  A chemical explosive capable of detonation rather than solely of deflagration; a chemical explosive capable of reacting at a sufficiently-fast rate to produce a shock wave which propagates the reaction throughout the explosive mass; a chemical explosive capable of producing an explosion even when unconfined.
▸ Also see high_explosive


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