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.

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 ).

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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 used in World War I caused many blast injuries ; the large number of TBIs that resulted allowed researchers to learn about localization of brain functions.

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.

Adjoining it, on the west, in 1913 an associate venture, the Explosives Loading Company, built a plant to fill bombs and shells.

Several local police and fire departments responded as well as the Explosives Disposal team from the Port of Seattle, the FBI and the BATF.

Explosives based on ammonium nitrate have little or no water resistance due to the reaction between ammonium nitrate and water, which liberates ammonia, nitrogen dioxide and hydrogen peroxide.

The Home Office removed gunpowder from its list of Permitted Explosives ; and shortly afterwards, on 31 December 1931, the former Curtis & Harvey's Glynneath gunpowder factory at Pontneddfechan, in Wales, closed down, and it was demolished by fire in 1932.

The Explosives Act places limits on the amount of powder ( either smokeless or black ) that may be stored in a building, on the manner in which it is stored, and on how much powder may be available for use at any time.

* February 28 – Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents raid the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, with a warrant to arrest leader David Koresh on federal firearms violations.

Dewar was also the President of the Chemical Society in 1897 and the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1902, as well as serving on the Royal Commission established to examine London's water supply from 1893 to 1894 and the Committee on Explosives.

It was whilst he was serving on the Committee on Explosives that he and Frederick Augustus Abel developed cordite, a smokeless gunpowder alternative.

The Marshals Service publicizes the names of wanted persons it places on the list of U. S. Marshals 15 Most Wanted Fugitives, which is similar to and sometimes overlapping the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list or the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Most Wanted List, depending on jurisdiction.

* " 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.

* U. S. forces search the Latifiyah Explosives and Ammunition Plant, south of Baghdad, and discover thousands of boxes full of vials of a white powdery substance, atropine ( a nerve agent antidote ) and Arabic documents on how to engage in chemical warfare.

In 2007, Lautenberg proposed the Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2007, designed to deny weapons purchases by persons that the government has placed on the terrorist watchlist.

Across from the main harbour itself there was a terminal for the ICI-Nobel Explosives plant on the River Garnock.

However, in 1924 a new venture, the Mining Explosives Company, opened a factory on the east side of Faversham Creek, not far from the site of Faversham Abbey — hence its Abbey Works name.

* The 1991 Convention on the Marking of Plastic Explosives for the Purpose of Identification

One reviewer of Home Workshop Explosives ( David Harber, author of Guerrilla's Arsenal ) notes that although the chemistry is solid, the chapter on Detonation Systems " borders on insanity.

The original. 50 Action Express bore diameter was. 500 " with conventional rifling, but the switch to polygonal rifling on production Desert Eagles Pistols allowed the gauge plug to drop through, rendering the gun a destructive device under Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ( BATFE ) regulations.