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Detonating   Listen
adjective
Detonating  adj., n.  From Detonate.
Detonating gas, a mixture of two volumes of hydrogen with one volume of oxygen, which explodes with a loud report upon ignition.
Detonating powder, any powder or solid substance, as fulminate of mercury, which when struck, explodes with violence and a loud report.
Detonating primer, a primer exploded by a fuse; used to explode gun cotton in blasting operations.
Detonating tube, a strong tube of glass, usually graduated, closed at one end, and furnished with two wires passing through its sides at opposite points, and nearly meeting, for the purpose of exploding gaseous mixtures by an electric spark, as in gas analysis, etc.






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"Detonating" Quotes from Famous Books



... walk on the embattlements and was turned back. Baulked in this direction, she strolled out towards the country and found men digging trenches. That was the first she knew that war was rumoured. On the Tuesday, two days later, Hun shells were detonating on the house-tops. She was held prisoner in Liege for some months after the Forts had fallen and saw more than all the crimes against humanity that the Bryce Report has recorded. At last she disguised herself and contrived her escape into Holland. ...
— Out To Win - The Story of America in France • Coningsby Dawson



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