Great masses of sparks mingled with black smoke flew over the road; the bamboos of the walls detonated in the fire with the sound of an irregular fusillade.
Now and then a lot of rockets, swishing upwards invisibly, detonated overhead with only a puff of smoke in the bright sky.
The detonator is filled with some easily detonated substance, such as fulminate of mercury.
It struck the ledge and detonated like a high-explosive projectile, and the messman received its disintegrated stickiness full in the face.
But according to my batman, who braved it out, the Lieutenant woke up first, exploded noisily and detonated the Field Officer who in turn detonated the Colonel.
The whole mass detonated with terrific violence, and, even before Sir Frederick had retreated as far as he expected to go, he was knocked senseless by the concussion, and nearly every shred of clothing was blown from his body.
The friction from the barrel set off this picrate of lead, which in turn detonated the picric acid; and the whole five tons went off with such violence as amply to demonstrate its explosive qualities.
One of the most notable is the opinion that the action of dynamite is downward, and that if a body of high explosive be detonated on the surface of the earth the main effect is downward.
When solidly frozen, it can be detonated only with much difficulty, and even then only with great loss of explosive force.
Castle/Bravo" was the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated by the United States.
And it was found, added the contented voice, that atomic bombs were not detonated by the induction fields.
Jagged portions of the detonated planet filled the sky of Earth with flames.
New types of grenades filled with high explosives detonated by a percussion fuze have been produced of late years, and it is probable that they will be again introduced into most countries.
When properly detonated a dense black smoke is produced and the projectile is broken up into small pieces, some of which are almost of the fineness of grains of sand.
The gun-cotton is detonated by a powerful exploder, the form of which differs in each country.
I have found that perfectly dry compressed gun cotton is detonated by 2.
A characteristic feature of gun cotton is that it may be detonated even when completely saturated with and immersed in water, if only some dry gun cotton be detonated in contact with it.
At the instant the jar of the first explosion made itself felt, the thought flashed through my mind that there actually was a U-boat lying on the bottom, and that the explosive charge on the sweep had been detonated against its hull.
The shock from the depth-charge--which appears to have detonated just about right to have the maximum effect--was terrific.
Brown, of Woolwich Arsenal, discovered that perfectly wet and uninflammable compressed gun-cotton could be easily detonated by the detonation of a priming charge of the dry material in contact with it.
They are detonated by means of a platinum wire heated to redness by means of an electric current.
They died when they headed reluctantly back to the Niccola--and detonated two miles from their parent ship.
They were to be detonated and another port-side rocket fired instantly, followed by a second hidden in the rocket-trail the first would leave behind.
Subsequently, their attention being called to the sharpness and carrying power of the report from detonating gun cotton, an apparatus was devised in which the gun cotton was detonated in the focus of a parabolic mirror.
The violent action of a chlorate mixture is due first to the rapid evolution of oxygen, and also to the fact that a chlorate can be detonated when alone.
NO2)3, are when dry very easily detonatedby friction or percussion and always on heating, whereas picric acid itself will burn very quietly when set fire to under ordinary conditions.
That we wrecked most of these new cities I now know, but of course at the time we were in the dark as to how much damage we caused, since our viewplates naturally went dead when we detonated our projectiles.
I detonated my projectile at once and ordered all of the operators to do so, and to tune in instantly on new ones.
Riflemen of Company E cut down one of them, but the other detonated his mine against the vehicle, killing himself and a Marine who tried to stop him.
When the Marines hacked at the vines to examine the weapon more closely, they released the firing pin and detonated a round in the chamber.
It is believed that the bombardment was due to anger because two of our howitzer shells had detonated right in one of the enemy's trenches, which was full of men.
Two muffled shots detonated within, and white splinters flew from a spot in the door covered a moment before by the sergeant's broad breast.
Joe had detonated the oxygen tank to make it look as if some cargo had ignited and destroyed the ship.
The mountain smoked one hundred and fifty-two days, flamed three, and detonated eleven.
Of a sudden, a volley of rifle reports detonated between the rock walls behind him.
Dynamite, on the other hand, is invariably detonatedwhen struck by a bullet on passing through the side of the box.
They state that fulminate of mercury does not detonate gunpowder; but if the exploding charge is a small amount of nitro-glycerine, itself detonated by fulminate of mercury, then an explosion of the first order is obtained.
It is far more violent in its action when detonated than gunpowder.
Compressed gun-cotton in the air-dry state can be detonated by 2 grains of fulminate of mercury embedded in the material, but when it contains 3 per cent.
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