Explosive remnants of war — is a term used in the humanitarian aid industry to describe the explosive threats remaining in post war society. This includes landmines, cluster bombs, IEDs and other unexploded ordnance.Protocol V of the Convention on Certain Conventional… … Wikipedia
Conventional weapon — The terms conventional weapons or conventional arms generally refer to weapons that are in relatively wide use that are not weapons of mass destruction, such as nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. Conventional weapons include small arms… … Wikipedia
Explosive material — A number of 1.25lb M112 Demolition Charges, consisting of a C 4 compound, sit atop degraded weaponry scheduled for destruction An explosive material, also called an explosive, is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential… … Wikipedia
explosive — explosively, adv. explosiveness, n. /ik sploh siv/, adj. 1. tending or serving to explode: an explosive temper; Nitroglycerin is an explosive substance. 2. pertaining to or of the nature of an explosion: explosive violence. 3. likely to lead to… … Universalium
Explosive weapon — An explosive weapon generally uses high explosive to project blast and/or fragmentation from a point of detonation. Explosive weapons may be subdivided by their method of manufacture into explosive ordnance and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) … Wikipedia
Explosive Ordnance Disposal Badge — The Explosive Ordnance Disposal Badge is a military badge of the United States Armed Forces which recognizes those service members who are specially trained to deal with the construction, deployment, disarmament, and disposal of high explosives… … Wikipedia
Explosive booster — An explosive booster acts as a bridge between a low energy explosive and a low sensitivity (but typically high energy) explosive. It increases the energy of an initiating explosive to the degree sufficient to trigger the secondary charge. Unlike… … Wikipedia
explosive — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ high ▪ a bomb containing 200 lb of high explosive ▪ powerful ▪ home made, improvised ▪ con … Collocations dictionary
conventional — adj. VERBS ▪ be, seem ADVERB ▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc. ▪ highly … Collocations dictionary
Non-explosive demolition agents — are commercial products that are an alternative to explosives in demolition, mining, and quarrying.[1] To use non explosive demolition agents in demolition or quarrying, holes are drilled in the base rock like they would be drilled for use with… … Wikipedia