Explosive

Examples

• It was still full of explosive. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• 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. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Mr. Bounderby closed the door, and stood before the fire; projecting himself after his old explosive manner into his portrait—and into futurity. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• 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. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• 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. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• 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. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Why, mother, said Mr. Farebrother, after an explosive laugh, you know very well that Lydgate is of a good family in the North. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I watched the ties and the rails for any trip-wires or signs of explosive but I saw nothing. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• This was followed by the discovery of nitro-glycerine, a still more powerful explosive agent--too powerful and uncontrollable for guns as originally made. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The gasoline used also gave off a gas of highly explosive character and one very likely to escape from leaky tanks or joints. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• 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. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But in fact such activity is explosive, and due to maladjustment with surroundings. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• 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. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• 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. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• When in position and ready for work a few moments will suffice to bore the holes, apply the explosive and blast the ledge. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• No coherent history of firearms and explosives is possible in any short review. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• A suggestive application of the terrible power of these explosives is in submarine mines. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• 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. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Not only was her agriculture thereby threatened with a great decrease in crop production but her supply of military explosives was also threatened. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• 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. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Many striking examples of the power of explosives have been accidentally furnished of late, in the course of making munitions for the European war. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• These and other objections, such as the omission of explosives, firearms, paper, will readily occur to the reader. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The ammonia can in turn be oxidized to nitric acid, which is the basis of all explosives. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• She is using it both to grow crops and to make explosives for her guns. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• 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? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• 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. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• 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. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Other men enter the arena on foot, armed with red flags and explosives about the size of a musket cartridge. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• 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. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It is there the defenders are armed with the irresistible explosives. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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