Propellant is always a low explosive, this means it deflagrates instead of detonating, as with high explosives.

An explosive is classified as a low or high explosive according to its rate of burn: low explosives burn rapidly ( or deflagrate ), while high explosives detonate.

Deflagration is a characteristic of low explosive material.

* Nitrocellulose: A nitrated polymer which can be a high or low explosive depending on nitration level and conditions.

The term high explosive is in contrast to the term low explosive, which explodes ( deflagrates ) at a slower rate.

Gunpowder is classified as a low explosive because of its relatively slow decomposition rate and consequently low brisance.

Gunpowder is a low explosive and as such it does not detonate ; rather it deflagrates.

The large, low velocity gun could fire a large explosive shell or canister shot.

The term dirty bomb refers to a specialized device that relies on a comparatively low explosive yield to scatter harmful material over a wide area.

The simplest and oldest type of bombs store energy in the form of a low explosive.

Black powder is an example of a low explosive.

The products of stellar nucleosynthesis are generally distributed into the interstellar gas through mass loss episodes and stellar winds in stars of low mass, as in the photographically beautiful planetary nebulae phase of low-mass evolution, and through explosive events, called supernovae, in stars having more than eight times the mass of the sun.

Like gunpowder, cordite is classified as a low explosive because of its slow burning rates and consequently low brisance.

In theory, the amount of radioactive nuclear fallout would be reduced from that of a standard, air-burst nuclear detonation because they would have relatively low explosive yield.

While conventional bunker busters utilize several methods to penetrate concrete structures, these are for the purpose of destroying the structure directly, and are generally limited in how much of a bunker, or system of bunkers they can destroy by depth and their relatively low explosive force ( versus nuclear weapons ).

* Explosive booster, a bridge between a low energy explosive and a low sensitivity explosive

Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.

Such a comparison reminds us that in employing low characters in his works Faulkner is recording actuality in the South and moreover is following a long-established literary precedent.

What is more, the legends have become so sacrosanct that the very habit of self-examination or self-criticism smells of low treason, and men who practice it are defeatists and unpatriotic scoundrels.

Master Gorton, having foully abused high and low at Aquidneck is now bewitching and bemaddening poor Providence, both with his unclean and foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself have in Christ's name withstood him ), and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism: almost all suck in his poison, as at first they did at Aquidneck.

Milton's name being fourth is neither too high nor too low to be assigned to the arbitrary action of vice-chancellor, proctor, master, or other mighty hand.

The national average is more than $4 and that figure is considered by experts in the mental health field to be too low.

It is low when the thyroid is overactive and high when the gland is sluggish.

What we are attempting to do is achieve and maintain a balance between medium density and low density residential areas and industrial and commercial development.

West Berlin morale is low and, in age distribution, the situation is unfavorable.

Since conventional methods are insensitive at the low frequencies of these molecular transitions, the paramagnetic resonance method is being used instead.

Before it cycles on again, humidity can build up and make you uncomfortable even though the temperature is still low.

A new low capacity meter is the key that unlocks the situation at Oakwood Heights.

The major gets the assured gallonage for the life of the lease and the distributor apparently can do well because delivery cost is low.

The charge is variable, however, and goes as low as $.50 a day in Ireland and as high as $2.00 a day in Greece.

No attempts to measure the radio emission of the remaining planets have been reported, and, because of their distances, small diameters, or low temperatures, the thermal radiation at radio wave lengths reaching the earth from these sources is expected to be of very low intensity.

Essentially these birefringence studies show that at low rates of shear a tension is present at 45-degrees to the direction of shear, and as the rate of shear increases, the direction of the maximum tension moves asymptotically toward the direction of shear.

There is another means which should show the direction and relative value of the stresses in viscoelastic fluids that is not mentioned as such in the literature, and that is the shape of the suspended drops of low viscosity fluids in shear fields.

This is usually because of adverse conditions such as low water temperatures which may inhibit the production of thyroxine or prevent the larva from reacting to the hormone in the normal way.

Adobe walls usually never rise above two stories because they are load bearing and have low structural strength.

Winter annuals typically grow low to the ground, where they are usually sheltered from the coldest nights by snow cover, and make use of warm periods in winter for growth when the snow melts.

Other medications that are not usually called antidepressants, including antipsychotics in low doses and benzodiazepines, may be used to manage depression, although the use of benzodiazepines can cause a physical dependence.

A picoammeter, or pico ammeter, measures very low electrical current, usually from the picoampere range at the lower end to the milliampere range at the upper end.

However, in order to remain competitive they must keep margins usually quite low.

Owing to the low and erratic rainfall over most of the outback, combined with soils which are usually not very fertile, inland Australia is relatively sparsely settled.

Developed countries usually import a lot of primary raw materials from developing countries at low prices.

Deserts usually have a large diurnal and seasonal temperature range, with high or low, depending on location daytime temperatures ( in summer up to, and low nighttime temperatures ( in winter down to due to extremely low humidity.

An elementary reaction involves a few molecules, usually one or two, because of the low probability for several molecules to meet at a certain time.

Modern computer animation usually uses 3D computer graphics, although 2D computer graphics are still used for stylistic, low bandwidth, and faster real-time renderings.

By studying how quickly the reagent species disappears in the presence of differing concentrations of a ( usually stable ) co-reagent species the reaction rate constant at the low temperature of the CRESU flow can be determined.

Inside the bulb, on a low friction spindle, is a rotor with several ( usually four ) vertical lightweight metal vanes spaced equally around the axis.

Gun specifically refers to a type of cannon that fires projectiles at high speeds, and usually at relatively low angles ; they have been used in warships, and as field artillery.

Western crucifixes usually have a three-dimensional corpus, but in Eastern Orthodoxy Jesus's body is normally painted on the cross, or in low relief.

Some fires are caused by lightning, but these are usually during periods of high humidity and low winds and are easily controlled.

Rummel has responded that the 20 million estimate is based on a figure from Robert Conquest's 1968 book The Great Terror, and that Conquest's qualifier " almost certainly too low " is usually forgotten.

On the other hand, user / kernel-mode transitions usually impose a considerable performance overhead, thereby prohibiting user mode-drivers for low latency and high throughput requirements.

The term glycol is reserved for low to medium range molar mass polymer when the nature of the end-group, which is usually a hydroxyl group, still matters.

Rainfall during this season generally comes from low pressure over the Pacific and usually falls in heavy afternoon thunderstorms.

The development of easy methods to separate europium from the other trivalent lanthanides made europium accessible even when present in low concentration, as it usually is.

Diesel engines are often used for back up generation, usually at low voltages.

As p53 protein levels are usually kept low, one could block its degradation and allow large amounts of p53 to accumulate, thus stimulating p53 activity and its antitumour effects.