The explosives factory was later operated by AECI ( African Explosives and Chemical Industries ).

Explosives are often characterized by the physical form that the explosives are produced or used in.

Tungsten has also been used in Dense Inert Metal Explosives, which use it as dense powder to reduce collateral damage while increasing the lethality of explosives within a small radius.

* High Explosives Applications Facility and Energetic Materials Center: At HEAF, teams of scientists, engineers, and technicians address nearly all aspects of high explosives: research, development and testing, material characterization, and performance and safety tests.

The law enforcement functions of ATF, including the regulation of legitimate traffic in firearms and explosives, were transferred to the Department of Justice as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives ( BATFE ).

The Canine Explosives Detection Unit ( K-9 ): Created in 1976, the mission of the K-9 unit is to provide skilled and specialized explosives detection support to protective efforts involving Secret Service protectees.

A United Kingdom government committee, known as the " Explosives Committee ", chaired by Sir Frederick Abel, monitored foreign developments in explosives and obtained samples of Poudre B and Ballistite.

Explosives or heavy gunfire can be used to destroy wooden doors, and ( in the case of explosives ) potentially kill anyone within the blast radius on the other side.

HSE's Explosives Inspectorate enforces the legislation for the classification and transport of explosives.

The remaining parts of the Act ( Information, Proceedings and Interpretation, Further Provisions for Northern Ireland, and Supplementary ) are largely technical, although the Northern Ireland provisions extend the right to search property, restricts remission for those convicted of statutory offences, and tightens control over the granting of licenses under the Explosives Act 1875 ( new explosives factories and magazines ).

The remaining parts of the Act ( Information, Proceedings and Interpretation, Further Provisions for Northern Ireland, and Supplementary ) are largely technical, although the Northern Ireland provisions extend the right to search property, restricts remission for those convicted of statutory offences, and tightens control over the granting of licenses under the Explosives Act 1875 ( new explosives factories and magazines ).

During the First World War, Nobel was the home of two explosives factories: The British Cordite Limited and Canadian Explosives Ltd.

He specialised in gunpowder and explosives, founding a factory called the Australian Gunpowder and Explosives Manufacturing Company.

* Home Workshop Explosives details how the underground chemist can easily manufacture his own explosives.

Deer Park was chosen as the site of Melbourne's first explosives factory, the Albion Explosives Factory, in the 1870s.

For mixtures and types of explosives, see: Category: Explosives.

* Fido Explosives Detector, a portable explosives detector

Meanwhile, a government committee in Great Britain, called the " Explosives Committee " and chaired by Sir Frederick Abel monitored foreign developments in explosives.

There is a choice between four possible detection taggant chemicals which must be added to plastic explosives under the 1998 International Civil Aviation Organization's Convention on the Marking of Explosives for the Purpose of Identification.

* Israeli Invention Detects TATP Explosives " To our great surprise ,” PET ’ s inventor, Prof. Ehud Keinan, Dean of the Technion's Faculty of Chemistry, wrote in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, “ we discovered that TATP is very different from all other conventional explosives in that it does not release heat during the explosion.

Note: In World War I, the name used in the UK for Government-owned explosives factories was National Explosives Factory ; and the Cordite factory at Gretna was known as HM Factory, Gretna.

Products included cordite, guncotton, gunpowder, and cartridges. After the First World War many of the UK ammunition and explosives manufacturers were brought together under Nobel Explosives to become Nobel Industries, which was a founding element of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd ( ICI ) in 1926.

As a result of a full-scale Congressional investigation, Congress directed the establishment of the Armed Forces Explosives Safety Board to provide oversight on every aspect of explosives under the control of the US Armed Forces.

As a result of a full-scale Congressional investigation, Congress directed the establishment of the Armed Forces Explosives Safety Board to provide oversight on every aspect of explosives under the control of the US Armed Forces.

After the end of World War I, the majority of the United Kingdom gunpowder manufacturers merged into a single company, " Explosives Trades limited "; and number of sites were closed down, including those in Ireland.

Most of the Department's law enforcement agencies such as the U. S. Customs Service, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ( ATF ), and the U. S. Secret Service were reassigned to other Departments in 2003 in conjunction with the creation of the Department of Homeland Security.

Explosives introduced from China were known in Japan by the time of the Mongol Invasions in the 13th century.

Many of the agency's missions were later taken over by subsequent agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ( ATF ), Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ), and Internal Revenue Service ( IRS ).

However, neither of these smokeless powders were recommended for adoption by the Explosives Committee.

Immediately prior to World War I, between 6, 000 and 8, 000 tons per year of cordite were produced in the United Kingdom by private manufacturers ; between 1, 000 and 1, 500 tons per year were made by Nobel's Explosives, at Ardeer.

Dupont Explosives were used in many mines across northeastern Pennsylvania in the late 19th to 20th century.

Explosives were detonated in the atmosphere at timed intervals.

The ATF law enforcement functions were transferred to the Justice Department and were renamed the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

In addition to both the massive expansion of the Royal Arsenal and private munitions companies, other UK Government-owned National Explosives Factories and National Filling Factories were built during World War I.

Just over 40 ROFs were opened by the end of World War II, nearly half of them Filling Factories, together with a similar number of factories built and run by private companies, such as ICI's Nobels Explosives ( although these explosive factories were not called ROFs ).

Explosives and munitions were also produced at Nobel in World War II.

Canadian Explosives, jointly owned by du Pont, in the USA, and Nobel's Explosives, in Scotland, were already producing Cordite, at Beloeil, for the Quebec Arsenal, before World War I.

Explosives were used to kill a beached humpback whale west of Port Elizabeth on August 6, 2001,

The Corps of Drums were trained to become a Mines and Explosives response team ( EOD ) to help the Royal Engineers in time of trouble.

Just over 40 ROFs were opened by the end of World War II, nearly half of them Filling Factories, together with a similar number of factories built and run by private companies, such as ICI's Nobel Explosives ( although these explosive factories were not called ROFs ).

These ICI Nobel Explosives owned factories were not considered part of the Ministry of Supply's Royal Ordnance Factory organisation and they were not called ROFs.