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(chemistry, usually capitalized) A test for the stability of smokeless powder and similar explosives.
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An improvised weapon consisting of an acid and a base combined in a container, which swells and explodes.
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A firework consisting of flash powder in a paper case, ejected into the air with a black powder lifting charge ignited by a fuse, and producing a loud bang and bright flash.
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A percussion cap or detonator.
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(West Midlands) A firework made from multiple firecrackers folded together so that they will explode one after the other.
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A smokeless propellant made from nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine, developed in the late 19th century.
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(pyrotechnics) A bomb or shell.
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(pyrotechnics) A type of very small firework consisting of a small amount of gravel or coarse sand impregnated with a minute amount of silver fulminate and wrapped in a twisted piece of thin paper, which detonates harmlessly when struck, crushed, or ignited.
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Type of firework containing a mixture of firework types in one single-ignition package.
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A bright blue flare prepared from nitre, sulphur, and the black sulphide of antimony; formerly used in signalling, but now chiefly as fireworks.
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A pyrotechnic fuse consisting of a cotton string, coated with black powder.
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A kind of firework that creates a snake-like formation of ash via an intumescent reaction.
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Alternative spelling of black match [A pyrotechnic fuse consisting of a cotton string, coated with black powder.]
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A device to detonate an explosive, often consisting of a box with a handle to be pressed down.
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A large firework of the firecracker type; an M-80.
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(chemistry) A heavy-walled container designed to permit chemical reactions under high pressure.
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A small or subsidiary bomb, such as one of those released by a cluster bomb.
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A bomb or artillery shell designed to explode on impact.
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(explosives) A small quantity of a sensitive explosive that is triggered by a detonator and provides the energy needed to detonate a larger quantity of a less-sensitive explosive.
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A relatively thin resistance wire used that is heated by electric current to set off a pyrotechnic composition.
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(pyrotechnics) A multi-shot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse.
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A pasteboard shell used in signaling, filled with a substance which makes a brilliant light when it explodes.
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A kind of large firecracker.
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A small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives.
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An automobile laden with a large amount of explosives, and used as a bomb primarily in order to cause external damage.
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A spherical, cherry-sized firecracker that generates a high-power explosion.
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An explosive munition designed to explode in the air and release a cluster of smaller explosives, thus spreading the blast over a larger area.
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A smokeless propellent made by combining two high explosives, nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine, used in some firearm ammunition.
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Any of several forms of parade-like celebrations in Catalonia involving pyrotechnics in the middle of a crowd.
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An explosive consisting of castable mixtures of RDX and TNT.
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Abbreviation of detonating cord. [An explosive cord, typically used as a fuse/primer to detonate explosive charges, or as a cutting agent to cut patterns explosively. The explosive cord is a small flexible plastic tube filled with explosive in a flexible binder, typically pentaerythritol tetranitrate (“PETN”) (pentrite explosives).]
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An explosive cord, typically used as a fuse/primer to detonate explosive charges, or as a cutting agent to cut patterns explosively. The explosive cord is a small flexible plastic tube filled with explosive in a flexible binder, typically pentaerythritol tetranitrate (“PETN”) (pentrite explosives).
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Synonym of detonating cord
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(archaic) Any explosive whose action is practically instantaneous.
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(Ireland) An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb
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(informal, proscribed) A stick of trinitrotoluene (TNT).
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Any device in which electricity is used to trigger an explosion.
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A device to trigger explosive detonators such as a plunger or crank operated electrical generator.
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A belt packed with explosives and armed with a detonator, worn by a suicide bomber.
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(obsolete, 19th century, firefighting) A glass bulb filled with caustic and often carcinogenic liquid chemicals that, when thrown and broken in a fire, smother the fire by removing oxygen.
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A person or thing that is exciting and/or unpredictable.
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(historical) An artillery officer who supervised the composition of fireworks.
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A person who creates firework displays.
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(plural only, figuratively) A boisterous or violent event or situation.
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(military, slang, historical) The flare or tracer ammunition fired by this weapon.
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A kind of pyrotechnic device.
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(military) An antipersonnel bomb that scatters shrapnel when it explodes
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A cord that, when lit, conveys the fire to some explosive device.
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A fuse for an explosive.
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(military, professional usage) An auxiliary device with explosive components, used to detonate a munition.
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A firework that produces a fountain of sparks
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(pyrotechnics) A kind of ornamental firework.
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(pyrotechnics) A type of firework which creates a "whirling top" or "flying saucer" effect.
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A pyrotechnic composition which burns with a green flame. It consists of sulfur and potassium chlorate, with some salt of barium (usually the nitrate).
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An explosive mixture of saltpetre (potassium nitrate), charcoal and sulphur; formerly used in gunnery but now mostly used in fireworks.
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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.
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An unconventional or amateur explosive weapon made from nonmilitary components, especially one used by guerillas, commandos or terrorists.
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A pyrotechnic composition of sulfur, nitre, and realgar, burning with a brilliant white light.
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(historical) A time bomb.
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(dated) An explosive device designed to cause damage to life or property.
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An explosive device which releases an indelible ink designed to stain a person illegally opening a container of cash.
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A variety of small firecracker.
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(pyrotechnics) One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
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words and/or pictures made from fireworks
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A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or coloured flame.
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Any bomb disguised as a harmless bottle of soft drink, milk, medicine etc.
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(pyrotechnics) A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
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A crude incendiary bomb made from a glass bottle, either filled with a flammable liquid such as petroleum and supplied with a rag for a fuse that is lit just before being hurled, or filled with such a mix of flammable liquids that it ignites itself when it is smashed and its contents are exposed to air.
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(historical) A fuse for firing mines.
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An early test using hot paraffin wax to take a cast of a suspect's hand, which was then sprayed with a reagent to gauge the presence of propellant particles indicating that the person had fired a gun.
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A novelty item containing confetti or streamers and a small explosive charge, used at parties.
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A timed fuse designed to be connected to a detonator or short length of safety fuse.
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A fuse in a projectile set in action by concussion when the projectile strikes the object.
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(rare) A loud firecracker.
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A kind of firework that creates a snake-like formation of ash via an intumescent reaction, originally involving toxic mercury (II) thiocyanate.
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(explosives) An improvised explosive device consisting of blasting powder or other explosive material encased in a metal pipe to increase the blast effect.
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Alternative spelling of pipe bomb [(explosives) An improvised explosive device consisting of blasting powder or other explosive material encased in a metal pipe to increase the blast effect.]
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The sliding activator of an exploder, an electrical generator used to trigger electrical detonators such as blasting caps.
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An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder.
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(informal) An explosives expert. A person who sets explosives.
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Synonym of detonating cord
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Synonym of detonating cord
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The powder or other combustible used to communicate fire to a charge of gunpowder, as in a firearm.
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A train of powder connecting a fuse with a charge for detonation.
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the explosive (cordite, gunpowder, etc) found in ammunition cartridges
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A fuse that is designed to detonate an explosive automatically when close enough to the target to destroy it.
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Alternative spelling of proximity fuse [A fuse that is designed to detonate an explosive automatically when close enough to the target to destroy it.]
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(of a missile etc) powered by an explosive
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(dated) A person who makes fireworks, rockets or artillery
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A mechanism operated by an explosion
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Involving pyrotechnic displays and music.
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An ignition device, designed to ignite more difficult-to-ignite materials, such as thermites, solid fuel rockets, etc.
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A person who designs or organises pyrotechnics.
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(dated) A pyrotechnician: person skilled in the manufacture or setting off of fireworks and firework displays.
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The technology of pyrotechnics
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The manufacture and use of fireworks.
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An explosive usually used in combination with dynamite.
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A pyrotechnic fuse consisting of a cotton string, coated with black powder, confined in a paper tube.
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Alternative spelling of quick match [A pyrotechnic fuse consisting of a cotton string, coated with black powder, confined in a paper tube.]
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A high explosive used by the military and industry.
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A chemical mixture, used in fireworks and flares, that burns with a bright red flame.
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A type of firework with a long, thick paper tube that contains layers of "stars" and lifting charges. When ignited, pyrotechnic stars shoot from the tube one at a time.
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A waterproof woven tube enclosing a flammable substance which burns at a regular rate.
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A match designed so it can only be ignited on a special friction surface.
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A pyrotechnic device primarily designed to produce a loud bang.
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A kind of rapidly spinning ground-based firework.
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A high explosive in the form of a yellowish powder.
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A kind of firework with a serpentine motion.
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A firework designed to produce smoke upon ignition.
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A bomb that generates thick smoke when it explodes; used especially to produce a smokescreen.
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(military) A rod (for cylindrical secondaries) or sphere (for spherical secondaries) of fissile material at the center of the secondary of a multistage thermonuclear weapon, which undergoes nuclear fission when compressed to supercriticality by the imploding secondary, helping to raise the secondary to the pressures and temperatures necessary to ignite nuclear fusion in the secondary's fusion fuel.
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A hand-held firework that emits sparks.
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(automotive) The heating element used to set off the sodium azide pellets in a vehicle's airbag.
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A type of torbanite, which sparks when set on fire.
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A vest packed with explosives and armed with a detonator, worn by suicide bombers.
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a match whose head consists of a mixture containing sulfur; a small amount of phosphorus is included either on the match, or on a striking surface in the case of a safety match
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a strip of paper impregnated with nitre, used as a fuse for firing gunpowder, fireworks etc.
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A kind of firework that gyrates in the air.
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Bullets or other projectiles which include a pyrotechnic component, allowing their path through the air to be seen.
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Bullets which include a pyrotechnic component, allowing their path through the air to be seen.
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(explosives) A sequence of events that culminates in the detonation of explosives.
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(terrorism) A truck loaded with explosives, used as a bomb.
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A type of pyrotechnic flare used as a signal or temporary illumination.
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A kind of firework supposed to resemble a volcano eruption.
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A kind of fuse used for consumer fireworks and to create delays between firings in firework displays.
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A kind of firework producing an upward plume of sparks.
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A Christmas firework popular in the Philippines, made with yellow phosphorus, potassium chlorate, potassium nitrate, and trinitrotoluene.
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A weapon used to create large-scale disruption instead of destruction.
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