Detonates Sentence Examples

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  • The liquid when soaked into a porous combustible substance like blotting-paper burns rapidly and quietly, and when struck with a hammer on a hard surface violently detonates; when a little of the liquid is spread on an anvil and struck, the portion immediately under the hammer only will, as a rule, detonate, the remainder being scattered.

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  • Dr P. Wolff has found that when this is used on the large scale there is a risk of the ammonia present in the acetylene forming traces of chloride of nitrogen in the purifying-boxes, and as this is a compound which detonates with considerable local force, it occasionally gives rise to explosions in the purifying apparatus.

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  • The Mole evacuates the area and Brains detonates the explosives.

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  • A ' smart ' fuse detonates the warhead in the underground bunker.

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  • When the wick burns all the way down to those explosive sticks, the field detonates and the game ends.

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