high explosive in English

noun
1
a chemical explosive that is rapid and destructive, used in shells and bombs.
He points out that, when it comes to building a nuclear bomb, obtaining high explosives is only a small part of a very complicated procedure.

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1. Looks like high-explosive pajamas to me.

2. Acetone peroxide is an organic peroxide and a primary high explosive.

3. The Bolshevists would blow up the fabric with high explosive, with horror

4. From the craters it looks like they used a high explosive, possibly military grade.

5. Besides the Luftwaffe's bombs, German heavy artillery (which had just come within range) also fired high-explosive shells into Dunkirk.

6. "They still contain high explosive, most likely made up of TNT or Amatol, which is a mixture of TNT and ammonium nitrate

7. The ship of the line was overtaken by the ironclad: powered by steam, protected by metal armor, and armed with guns firing high-explosive shells.

8. 30 The black mat also has turned up nanodiamonds, which are formed in the interstellar medium outside the solar system, by or by a high-explosive detonation.

9. An explosive charge consisting of 24 Mark VII depth charges—containing a total of 4.5 short tons (4.1 t) of amatol high explosive—was fitted into steel tanks installed just behind the steel pillar that supported her most forward gun mount.

10. A High Explosive (HE) variant of shell, referenced OEA Mle 1935 (Obus Explosif en Acier), could have been designed and tested, but would have not been ordered, as no reference of this shell has been found in the war ammunition inventories of the ships.

11. The guns were equipped with three different types of shells, an armor-piercing (AP) L/4,4 shell that weighed 330 kg (727.5 lb) and two high explosive (HE) shells that both weighed 315 kg (694.4 lb)— an L/4,4 type with a base fuse and an L/4,5 version with a nose fuse.

12. According to incomplete statistics, a total of 268 air raids were conducted against Chongqing, with each raid consisting from a few dozen to over 150 bombers per raid in 9,513 sorties dropping a mix of 21,593 high-explosive and incendiary bombs, killing 11,889 citizens, injuring 14,100 more, and destroying over 30,000 homes, and bombing 30 universities and middle schools.