In addition to strength, explosives display a second characteristic, which is their shattering effect or brisance ( from the French meaning to " break "), which is distinguished and separate from their total work capacity.

Though a radiological dispersal device ( RDD ) would be designed to disperse radioactive material over a large area, a bomb that uses conventional explosives would likely have far more lethal effect than the radioactive material.

Another effect of closeness to Amber is the failure of explosives.

As they often did during that period, The Who destroyed their instruments at the conclusion of their performance of " My Generation ", with the usual addition of mild explosives for light pyrotechnic effect.

Later, explosives like gunpowder were used for even greater effect.

As they often did during that period, The Who destroyed their instruments at the conclusion of their performance of " My Generation ", with the usual addition of mild explosives for light pyrotechnic effect.

Similar ' big moments ' occurred in a visit from Screamin ' Jay Hawkins (" I Put a Spell on You "), when the singer appeared in the studios in Culver City dressed in black cape, distributing explosives flash paper to great effect, and when Mel Brooks came in for an interview and was presented with an " absolutely HUGE " cheese cake from Canter's Deli on Fairfax Avenue.

During World War Two the British referred to the Monroe effect as the cavity effect on explosives.

However, cap pistols use caps with extremely small amounts of explosives for the sound effect.

They are however somewhat brittle, as their glass transition temperature is at room temperature or above ; this limits their use to insensitive explosives ( e. g. TATB ) where the brittleness does not have detrimental effect to safety.

Camphor has various uses, including manufacture of plastics, lacquers and varnishes, explosives and pyrotechnics ; as a moth repellent ; as a preservative in pharmaceuticals and cosmetics ; to relieve itching and pain by creating a cooling effect on the skin ; as an injectable antibacterial for root canals in dentistry ; as a food flavor enhancer ; and as a medical ingredient in chest rubs.

From August to October 1991, the production crew fitted the old Orlando City Hall building featured in the opening scene with carefully placed explosives to create the visual effect of a bomb explosion.

This made the machine impervious to small arms fire and resistant to explosives ; three external explosions and over 200 rounds of firearm ammunition fired at the bulldozer had no effect on it.

Some variants were of a rectangular shape, but in all cases the outer casing served only as container for the explosives and fuze, without being used to destructive effect ( e. g. shrapnel ).

The detonation of explosives underwater has also been observed to produce the effect.

Conventional high explosives are still used in missiles and nuclear artillery shells where weight and volume is a factor ( IHE by weight contains only two-thirds the energy of HE, so more is needed to achieve the same effect ).

The ninja who likes explosives, opens up a bazooka and fires it at the dragon but it has little effect.

The Jagdfaust used a 5 cm " Minengranate " shell, whose thin walls traded fragmentation for additional explosives ; when detonated within an aircraft with sheet metal skin, the skin would be blown off to devastating effect.

Higher velocity explosives are used for relatively hard rock in order to shatter and break the rock, while low velocity explosives are used in soft rocks to generate more gas pressure and a greater heaving effect.

To this effect I had already severed all connections which bound me to my former existence.

It had drawn them together, and since his release from prison Dill had worked tirelessly to effect this night's escape.

His academic duties had little evident effect on his prolific pen.

It took Pike a long time to realize what Woodruff had done, and it had a profound effect on him.

The orator of this period, in order to earn a reputation, had to pay close attention to the formal composition of his speech, judging how it would appear in print as well as the effect it would have on the audience that heard it.

Consequently, Fred and Tom, the two who had been provided college educations, signed statements to the effect that each had received his bequest in full, and Effie and I were each allotted $5000.

This is not to deny the existence of pogroms and ghettos, but only to assert that these horrors have had an effect on the nerves of people who did not experience them, that among the various side effects is the local hysteria of Jewish writers and intellectuals who cry out from confusion, which they call oppression and pain.

Since appeals to morality, to humanity, and to sanity have had such small effect, perhaps our last recourse is the deterrent example.

Again among those jubilantly reunited bunkmates, I was shy with Jessie and acted as I had during those early Saturday mornings when we all seemed to be playing for effect, to be detached and unconcerned with the girls who were properly our dates but about whom, later, in the privacy of our bunks, we would think in terms of the most elaborate romance.

( Alaska and Hawaii had fixed allotment percentages in effect prior to fiscal year 1962.

( Alaska and Hawaii had fixed Federal share percentages in effect prior to fiscal year 1962.

Since the details of the elections were settled the change of government had no direct effect on the technical aspects of the elections, and may have been more important as an indication of royal displeasure with the U.N.F.P.

The accumulation of such devices, however, soon had the effect of telescoping, even while separating, surface and depth.

The effect is as if he had materialized out of nowhere.

the death of Emma Hardy in 1912, which had a profound emotional effect on Hardy for which he found release in poetry ; ;

This had a pleasant effect upon the Sunday gate receipts as well as upon the intake of the rail and bus companies, some of which began to offer special excursion rates, including seats at the park, just as the trolley and ferry companies had when baseball was new.

On Blanche Jacobs, Kitti Gilborn's death had a quite different effect.

they had orders to that effect straight from President Kennedy, who thought at first, as did most others, that it was four followers of Cuba's Fidel Castro who had taken over the 707.

This whole tendency had an unfortunate effect on Chinese thinking.

In practice the law had little effect, but it did signal political support for abolishing slavery in the Confederacy

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

In my own company, in effect a partnership, although legally a corporation, I have been able to do many things for my employees which `` normal '' corporations of comparable size and nature would have been unable to do.

If it were not for the effect of destructive agencies, sawtimber growth would have been nearly twice as great as the 47 billion board feet in 1952.

For the industry of this model, the effect of such public pressures in the past has been to hold the price well below the short-run profit-maximizing price ( given the wage rate and the level of GNP ), and even below the entry-limited price ( but not below average cost ).

Once he has been identified, however, a new melody is used to accompany his narrative, a bleak motif with barren octaves creating a rather ancient effect:

Many rate increases already have been put into effect.

The Supreme Court of Virginia has stated that '" This Court has repeatedly held that the effect of an appeal to circuit court is to " annul the judgment of the inferior tribunal as completely as if there had been no previous trial.

One effect of the Communion's dispersed authority has been that conflict and controversy regularly arise over the effect divergent practices and doctrines in one part of the Communion have on others.

However, if the excited atom has been previously ionized, in particular if one of its inner shell electrons has been removed, a phenomenon known as the Auger effect may take place where the quantity of energy is transferred to one of the bound electrons causing it to go into the continuum.

Even with respect to slavery the new citizen law of 450 BC may have had effect: it is speculated that originally Athenian fathers had been able to register for citizenship offspring had with slave women ( Hansen 1987: 53 ).

( As a side effect, this provision means that MPs seeking to resign from parliament can get around the age-old prohibition on resignation by obtaining a low-salary sinecure in the pay of the Crown ; while several offices have been used for this purpose, two are currently in use.

Thus, study of this Barnum / Forer effect has been mostly focused on the level of acceptance of fake horoscopes and fake astrological personality profiles.

His last group of operas, composed for Rome, exhibit a deeper poetic feeling, a broad and dignified style of melody, a strong dramatic sense, especially in accompanied recitatives, a device which he himself had been the first to use as early as 1686 ( Olimpia vendicata ) and a much more modern style of orchestration, the horns appearing for the first time, and being treated with striking effect.

A charter with extended privileges was drafted in 1657, but appears never to have been enrolled or to have come into effect.

In a similar way, accurate AC / DC non-contact ammeters have been constructed using Hall effect magnetic field sensors.

Additionally, heavy drinking over time has been found to have a negative effect on reproductive functioning in women.

In Denmark the closing laws restricting retail trade on Sundays have been abolished with effect from the 1st of October 2012.

It has also been in a supranational union with Russia since 2 April 1996, although this has had little practical effect.

In February 1705, Queen Anne, who had made Marlborough a Duke in 1702, granted him the Park of Woodstock and promised a sum of £ 240, 000 to build a suitable house as a gift from a grateful crown in recognition of his victory – a victory which British historian Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy considered one of the pivotal battles in history, writing – " Had it not been for Blenheim, all Europe might at this day suffer under the effect of French conquests resembling those of Alexander in extent and those of the Romans in durability.

If the Crawford rule is in effect, then another option is the Holland rule, which stipulates that after the Crawford game, a player cannot double until after at least two rolls have been played by each side.