| NOUN | artifact | explosive compound | a compound that is explosive |
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| Meaning | A compound that is explosive. | |
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| Narrower | TNT, trinitrotoluene | explosive consisting of a yellow crystalline compound that is a flammable toxic derivative of toluene |
| cordite | explosive powder (nitroglycerin and guncotton and petrolatum) dissolved in acetone and dried and extruded in brown cords | |
| dynamite | An explosive containing nitrate sensitized with nitroglycerin absorbed on wood pulp | |
| plastic explosive, plastique | An explosive material that is easily molded around the object it is intended to destroy | |
| Broader | explosive | A chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck |
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