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- Fact Sheet - Explosives in the United States | Bureau of ...In 2015, the latest date for which statistics are available, the U.S. used slightly less than 4.5 billion pounds of explosives. The explosives industry is currently made up of nearly 9,000 federal explosives licensees and permittees working in two major areas, commercial explosives and fireworks.
- Explosive | Definition, Types, Examples, & Facts | BritannicaExplosive, any substance or device that can be made to produce a volume of rapidly expanding gas in an extremely brief period. There are three fundamental types: mechanical, nuclear, and chemical. A mechanical explosive is one that depends on a physical reaction, such as overloading a container.
- How C-4 Works | HowStuffWorksWhat is C-4? Explosive Basics. Soldiers set off two C-4 charges on an air base runway during a training operation. Like other high explosives, C-4's destructive power comes from rapidly expanding hot gas. Photo courtesy U.S. Department of Defense. The fundamental concept behind explosives is very simple.
- Explosive - WikipediaAn explosive (or explosive material) is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion if released suddenly, usually accompanied by the production of light, heat, sound, and pressure.
- Explosion - WikipediaAn explosion is a rapid expansion in volume of a given amount of matter associated with an extreme outward release of energy, usually with the generation of high temperatures and release of high-pressure gases.
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