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

For example, the U. S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ( ATF ) supports the United States ' International Traffic in Arms Regulations ( ITAR ) program " to aggressively enforce this mission and reduce the number of weapons that are illegally trafficked worldwide from the United States and used to commit acts of international terrorism, to subvert restrictions imposed by other nations on their residents, and to organized crime and narcotics-related activities.

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.

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

The NAR and the TRA successfully sued the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ( BATFE ) over the classification of Ammonium Perchlorate Composite Propellant ( APCP ), the most commonly used propellant in high-power rocket motors, as an explosive.

* Explosives: of explosives were used to blast of rock.

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.

The premises still needed to be licensed under the 1875 Explosives Act, as gunpowder was used in the initiator.

Explosives are usually used to facilitate breakage.

Explosives are used to break up a rock formation and aid in the collection of ore in a process called blasting.

Some dogs may also be used by tactical components of such agencies as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the United States Marshals Service.

Explosives can also be used to clear mine fields, either by artillery bombardment, or with specialised charges such as Bangalore torpedos, the Antipersonnel Obstacle Breaching System and the Python Minefield Breaching System.

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

Explosives commonly used in blasting caps include mercury fulminate, lead azide, lead styphnate and tetryl.

* Explosives used during WW II

Explosives or hydraulic fracturing are used to create open pathways within the deposit for solution to penetrate into.

Explosives used in blast fishing not only kill fish but also destroy coral skeletons, creating unbalanced coral rubble.

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.

The site was then used by Nobel's Explosives to build a TNT / propellant factory in 1914 with Government approval.

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.

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.

During World War I Hall served with the United States Ordnance Department where he was promoted to Chief Inspector of Powder 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 ).

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

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.

After the start of World War II, he headed the National Defense Research Committee's Explosives Division.

During World War I the Canning Street bridge was known as Cordite Bridge as it led to the Department of Defence Explosives Factory.

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 ).

The Filling Factory's raw materials, such as TNT, RDX, or propellants, such as cordite, were manufactured in National Explosives Factories ( World War I ) or Explosive ROFs ( World War II ) and transported, by railway trains, to the Filling Factories for filling into munitions, produced at other plants.

Past industries have included a glue factory and brick and tile works in Appley Bridge and the Roburite Explosives Works ( now Orica ) at Gathurst from 1941 / 42 which employed over 500 workers during World War II, but was first established south of the River Douglas in 1888.

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.

A World War I explosive factory, which was to be later known as NEF Pembrey was built, by Nobel's Explosives, with British Government approval, near the village of Pembrey, Carmarthenshire, Wales.

* Declaration I: On the Launching of Projectiles and Explosives from Balloons

Cookes Explosives Ltd-part of the Imperial Chemical Industries ( I. C. I.

* " The Chemistry Of Powder And Explosives " by Tenney L. Davis is an outstanding, if outdated, source of information on a great many aspects of high enthalpy compounds.

While many machine guns can be legally owned with a proper tax stamp from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, an amendment to the Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986 barred the transfer to private citizens of machine guns made or registered in the U. S. after May 19, 1986.

Regarding the trafficking of firearms from the U. S. into Mexico, the U. S. Government Accountability Office ( GAO ) issued a report in June 2009 which stated: “ While it is impossible to know how many firearms are illegally smuggled into Mexico in a given year, about 87 percent of firearms seized by Mexican authorities and traced in the last 5 years originated in the United States, according to data from Department of Justice ’ s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ( ATF ).

Rock blasting currently utilizes many different varieties of Explosives with different compositions and performance properties.

Explosives usually have less potential energy than fuels, but their high rate of energy release produces a great blast pressure.