Synonym: volatile. Similar words: explosion, explode, explore, exploit, exploded, unexplored, exploration, exploitation. Meaning: [ɪk'spləʊsɪv] n. a chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck. adj. 1. serving to explode or characterized by explosion or sudden outburst 2. liable to lead to sudden change or violence 3. sudden and loud.
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121 Each missile carries 150 kilos of high explosive in its nose.
122 The Eksund's cargo had included surface-to-air missiles, mortar shells, rocket launchers and semtex high explosive.
123 The noises you heard - the explosive noises - were the acoustic effects of a second Darkfall strike.
124 The Marxist Left drew attention to the fact that the sources of industrial conflict were just as explosive as ever.
125 They insisted that the explosive events occurring in their midst were the work of the Holy Spirit.
126 They have different styles: Warren runs downhill, looking to make cuts, while Broussard is more explosive.
127 One of the earliest explosive devices was the petard, which was a mine used to breach castle walls or gates.
128 With the rocket's armaments he rigged up an explosive which killed both the crew and the people of Dido.
129 He then turned away and detonated the explosive device strapped to his body.
130 If the explosive activity is more or less continuous, then clearly ash will rise continuously.
131 It should, with its successors, prevent an explosive release of the gas into the atmosphere.
132 Ten days ago a police bullet had hit the explosive which Terry Place had hidden in a carrier bag in the tunnel.
133 The splitting of an atom sets off an explosive chain reaction.
134 Even after the explosive scene with his doctor, Sternburg kept his blinders on.
135 Before long, the explosive story is thoroughly media-wrenched, until the line between reality and sensational fantasy completely disappears.
136 Consequently, on reaching the surface they have a comparatively low residual pressure and explosive activity is very limited.
137 Mentally unstable, he would kill his parents in an explosive night of violence.
138 The twenty kilotons of explosive power poured out upon Hiroshima killed at least seventy thousand people.
139 Based in Toronto and Pennsylvania, it will focus on converting munitions into reusable commercial material and reclaim explosive waste sites.
140 All this was to change in a few explosive years of expansion in the mid-twelfth century, shortly before Richard's birth.
141 He said it would also be operated with shorter trains, reflecting a tailing off in the capital's explosive population growth.
142 The explosive was seized from two homes in the town of Meerut, in Uttar Pradesh, on Wednesday.
143 Ofahengaue gives All Black Bernie McCahill a taste of the explosive power that has captivated league clubs.
144 Political will in such situations is a low explosive, blasting along the lines of least resistance.
145 Explosive reactive armour, which is fitted in box-shaped panels,(Sentencedict) has been fixed to the turret roof of modern Soviet tanks.
146 Thus began a second period of explosive growth in Lothern.
147 Explosive energies in the kiloton to megaton range are possible.
148 Brain does not exclude brawn; displays of explosive strength can be followed by periods of cerebral calm.
149 It was in 1933 when the explosive din suddenly stopped and an eerie silence descended on Boulder Canyon.
150 Such testimony, unheard of in El Salvador, is potentially explosive in a state that has tried to bury its past.
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