LOW EXPLOSIVE

  

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LOW EXPLOSIVE

Specialty Definition: LOW EXPLOSIVE

DomainDefinition

Mining

An explosive in which the change into the gaseous state is effected by burning and not by detonation as with high explosives. Blasting powder (black powder or gunpowder) is the only low explosive in common use. It requires no detonator but is ignited by means of a safety fuse. Alsocalled propellant. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: LOW EXPLOSIVE

Specialty definitions using "LOW EXPLOSIVE": absorbents. (references)

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Modern Translation: LOW EXPLOSIVE

Language Translations for "LOW EXPLOSIVE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

lassú égésû lõpor. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

owlay explosiveay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: LOW EXPLOSIVE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-i-l-l-o-o-p-s-v-w-x"

-3 letters: eolopiles, explosive.

-4 letters: eolopile, lovelies, lowlives, woollies.

-5 letters: ellipse, epoxies, pillows, plosive, pollees, villose, weevils, wellies, woolies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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