Explosive belts are usually packed with ball bearings, nails, screws, bolts, and other objects that serve as shrapnel to maximize the number of casualties in the explosion.

Explosive bolts fired to separate the descent module from the service module and the upper launch shroud from the lower.

Explosive reactive armour, initially developed by German researcher Manfred Held while working in Israel, uses layers of high explosive sandwiched between steel plates.

" Explosive economic and industrial growth in China has led to significant environmental degradation, and China is currently in the process of developing more stringent legal controls.

Explosive power or performance is evaluated by a tailored series of tests to assess the material for its intended use.

* Explosive: An explosive charge is used to disintegrate the target, and damage surrounding areas with a blast wave.

The legal NEC ( Net Explosive Content ) of a UK Firework available to the public is 2 kilograms ( 4. 4 lbs ).

Explosive growth in the county is evident.

Explosive growth is evident, with the census for 2010 census showing a population of 179, 684.

: The Naval School of Explosive Ordnance Disposal ( NAVSCOLEOD ) is a Navy-managed command, jointly staffed by Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps personnel.

A car bomb, or truck bomb also known as a Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device ( VBIED ), is an improvised explosive device placed inside a car or other vehicle and then detonated.

This includes capabilities such as Explosive Ordnance Disposal, air-sea rescue ( where it is provided by the RAF Search and Rescue Force ) and mountain rescue ( where it is provided by the Royal Air Force Mountain Rescue Service )

Explosive reactive armour is available as an option.

In the United States, it is known as HEP, for " High Explosive, Plastic ".

This term is used to refer to the Navy SEALs, operatives of the CIA's Special Activities Division, elements of Marine Recon, Army Ranger RRD members, Army Special Forces divers, Air Force Pararescue, and the Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal ( EOD ) units.

A possibly more recent mission for CTF 68 is Commander, Task Force SIX EIGHT conducts Explosive Ordnance Disposal operations, Naval Construction, Expeditionary Security and Theater Security Cooperation in order to maintain strategic assess, develop interoperability with coalition, joint, inter-agency and other partners, and increase security and stability in Europe and Africa.

The event is all the more interesting as a number of key surveillance, communications and Improvised Explosive Devices detection and neutralisation technologies, available with both sides have been fielded in the exercise.

The Curriers ' Company is affiliated to Military Units in all three services: 101 ( City of London ) Engineer Regiment ( Explosive Ordnance Disposal ); No. 7 Squadron RAF ; and, Cambridge URNU.

Recent operations in Afghanistan and Iraq have seen a thermobaric rocket added ( described as NE —" Novel Explosive "), which is capable of collapsing a building.

The High Explosive, Dual Purpose ( HEDP ) rocket is effective against bunkers, masonry and concrete walls and light armor.

The High Explosive Anti-Armor ( HEAA ) rocket is effective against current tanks without additional armor and utilizes a standoff rod on the detonator, allowing the explosive force to be focused on a small point and for maximum damage against armored targets.

The Novel Explosive ( SMAW-NE ) rocket is effective against caves and bunkers.

The MAV is in the operational test phase with military Explosive Ordnance Disposal ( EOD ) teams to evaluate its short-range scouting capabilities.

Explosive, incendiary, noxious ( biological, chemical ) and armour piercing ammunition types are prohibited for civilians, although this ban created a problem for the authorities as expanding ammunition is needed for hunting and vermin control.

For warrant officers, the MOS 2305 indicates that it is in Occupational Field 23 ( Ammunition and Explosive Ordnance Disposal ) and designates the " Explosive Ordnance Disposal Officer " ( 05 ) MOS.

The contract is " to provide a full range of planning, analysis, exercise, and information technology services for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and High-Yield Explosive ( CBRNE ) Consequence Management operations ," a Titan press release announced.

Explosive materials may be categorized by the speed at which they expand.

Explosive compounds are also often " alloyed ": HMX or RDX powders may be mixed ( typically by melt-casting ) with TNT to form Octol or Cyclotol.

In the United States, these acts are governed by Title 40 of the United States Code, " Importation, Manufacture, Distribution and Storage of Explosive Materials " ( 18 U. S. C.

Explosive land mines were being used in 1277 AD by the Song Dynasty Chinese against an assault of the Mongols, who were besieging a city in southern China.

One of the simplest plastic explosives was Nobel's Explosive No. 808, also known as Nobel 808 ( often just called Explosive 808 in the British Armed Forces during the Second World War ), developed by the British company Nobel Chemicals Ltd well before World War II.

* Chōbaku Mahōden Slayers ( original name: 超爆魔道伝スレイヤーズ, 8 volumes, illustrated by Shoko Yoshinaka, adapted from Slayers main novels 1-8, 4th volume adapted from Slayers Return movie, 1995 – 2001, also known as Super Explosive Demon Story Slayers )

Around 1952 Norman MacLeod at his company the Explosive Research Corporation began working on the concept of a small directional mine for use by infantry.

Explosive bombs were used in 1221 by a Jin Dynasty army against a Song Dynasty city.

Explosive nucleosynthesis occurs too rapidly for radioactive decay to decrease the number of neutrons, so that many abundant isotopes having equal even numbers of protons and neutrons are synthesized by the silicon quasiequilibrium set up in the explosive burning of oxygen and silicon, fusing nuclei that themselves have equal numbers of protons and neutrons to produce nuclides which consist of whole numbers of helium nuclei, up to 15 ( representing < sup > 60 </ sup > Ni ).

* SNIFFEX was the subject of a report by the United States Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal that concluded " The handheld SNIFFEX explosives detector does not work.

In 1882 the Explosive Company of Stowmarket introduced the EC Powder, which contained nitro-cotton and nitrates of potassium and barium in a grain gelatinesed by ether alcohol.

Explosive reactive armour has been valued by the Soviet Union and its now-independent component states since the 1980s, and almost every tank in the eastern-European military inventory today has either been manufactured to use ERA or had ERA tiles added to it, including even the T-55 and T-62 tanks built forty to fifty years ago, but still used today by reserve units.

In 1953, the research and development tasks were assumed by OIL, which was renamed the Naval Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Center ( NAVEODTECHCEN ).

Subsequently, NAVEODFAC was redesignated as a fourth echelon field activity under the Naval Sea Sytstems Command ( NAVSEA ) and asked to provide EOD research and development in carrying out the Secretary of the Navy's responsibility for meeting Joint Service EOD technology requirements as defined by the Joint Service Explosive Ordnance Disposal Program Board.

The current, most recognizable distinctive item of wear by EOD Technicians, affectionately referred to as the " crab ", began uniform wear as the Basic Explosive Ordnance Disposal Badge in 1957.

The ZEUS-HLONS ( HMMWV Laser Ordnance Neutralization System ), commonly known as ZEUS, was developed for surface land mines and unexploded ordnance ( UXO ) neutralization by the U. S. Naval Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division ( NAVEODTECHDIV ).

*" Explosive reading ", review by Daniel Swift for the Financial Times

** Air America: From WWII to Vietnam: The Explosive True Story of the Cia's Secret Airline by Christopher Robbins ( Paperback – Jan 15, 1988 )

Mechanisms by Which the Atmosphere Adjusts to an Extremely Large Explosive Event, 2001.