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  2. Plastic explosive - Wikipedia

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    Plastic explosive is a soft and hand-moldable solid form of explosive material. Within the field of explosives engineering, plastic explosives are also known as putty explosives [1] or blastics. Plastic explosives are especially suited for explosive demolition. Common plastic explosives include Semtex and C-4.

  3. C-4 (explosive) - Wikipedia

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    C-4 or Composition C-4 is a common variety of the plastic explosive family known as Composition C, which uses RDX as its explosive agent. C-4 is composed of explosives, plastic binder, plasticizer to make it malleable, and usually a marker or odorizing taggant chemical.

  4. Detonator - Wikipedia

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    Instead of electric wires, a hollow plastic tube delivers the firing impulse to the detonator, making it immune to most of the hazards associated with stray electric current. It consists of a small diameter, three-layer plastic tube coated on the innermost wall with a reactive explosive compound, which, when ignited, propagates a low energy ...

  5. Gelignite - Wikipedia

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    Gelignite (/ ˈ dʒ ɛ l ɪ ɡ n aɪ t /), also known as blasting gelatin or simply "jelly", is an explosive material consisting of collodion-cotton (a type of nitrocellulose or guncotton) dissolved in either nitroglycerine or nitroglycol and mixed with wood pulp and saltpetre (sodium nitrate or potassium nitrate).

  6. 'We thought it was a ball' - the bombs killing and maiming ...

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    Over the last three decades, at least 565 children in the Indian state of West Bengal have been injured or killed by home-made bombs, a BBC Eye investigation has found. So what are these deadly ...

  7. List of bombs - Wikipedia

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    Guided bomb: Improvised explosive device: Land mine: Explodes when pressure is applied to the bomb. Outlawed in 164 nations. 1832 Ming Dynasty: Laser guided bomb: Molotov cocktail: Improvised incendiary grenade often made in a beer bottle Nail bomb: 1970 Pipe bomb: Pressure cooker bomb: the pressure of the pressure cooker places high explosive ...

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  9. A Cold War-era bomb shelter in Florida has new owners. What's ...

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    FORT PIERCE, Fla. — An "iron curtain" has descended here. Residents near a Cold War-era nuclear bomb shelter are wondering what the property's new owners are doing on the other side of the chain ...