a chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck
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explosive |
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
semantic pointers
hyponym
charge, burster, bursting charge, explosive charge
explosive compound
explosive mixture
propellant explosive, impulse explosive
warhead, payload, load
hydrazoic acid, azoimide, hydrogen azide, HN
high explosive
low explosive
powder, gunpowder
smokeless powder, Ballistite
tetryl, nitramine
hypernym
part holonym