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154 relations: Acetic anhydride, Ahmed Ressam, Al-Qaeda, Amatol, Ammonium nitrate, Ammunition, Assassination of Rafic Hariri, Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, Barnes Wallis, Beeswax, Bouncing bomb, Brisance, British Empire, Bruceton, Pennsylvania, Bureau of Ordnance, C-4 (explosive), Calcium stearate, Canada, Car bomb, Carcinogen, Central Reserve Police Force, Composition B, Composition C, Composition H-6, Conveyor belt, Cornell University, Cyclotol, Defense Centers for Public Health-Aberdeen, Demolition, Depth charge, Detonation velocity, Detonator, Dioctyl sebacate, Dunnite, DuPont, Eastman Chemical Company, Ecuador, English Heritage, Explosive, Explosive booster, Federal Security Service, Figure of Insensitivity, Firearm, FOX-7, Germany, Grand Slam (bomb), Graphite, Hercules Inc., Hexahydro-1,3,5-triazine, Hexamethylenetetramine, ... Expand index (104 more) »
- Nitroamines
- Rodenticides
Acetic anhydride
Acetic anhydride, or ethanoic anhydride, is the chemical compound with the formula.
Ahmed Ressam
Ahmed Ressam (احمد رسام; also Benni Noris; born May 9, 1967), also known as the "Millennium Bomber", is an Algerian al-Qaeda member who lived for a time in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by Sunni Jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim world under a supra-national Islamic caliphate.
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Amatol
Amatol is a highly explosive material made from a mixture of TNT and ammonium nitrate.
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Ammonium nitrate
Ammonium nitrate is a chemical compound with the formula. RDX and Ammonium nitrate are explosive chemicals.
Ammunition
Ammunition is the material fired, scattered, dropped, or detonated from any weapon or weapon system.
Assassination of Rafic Hariri
On 14 February 2005, former Prime Minister of Lebanon Rafic Hariri was killed along with 21 others in an explosion in Beirut, Lebanon.
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Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi
The assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India, occurred as a result of a suicide bombing in Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu, India on 21 May 1991.
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Barnes Wallis
Sir Barnes Neville Wallis (26 September 1887 – 30 October 1979) was an English engineer and inventor.
Beeswax
Beeswax (also known as cera alba) is a natural wax produced by honey bees of the genus Apis.
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Bouncing bomb
A bouncing bomb is a bomb designed to bounce to a target across water in a calculated manner to avoid obstacles such as torpedo nets, and to allow both the bomb's speed on arrival at the target and the timing of its detonation to be predetermined, in a similar fashion to a regular naval depth charge.
Brisance
Brisance is the shattering capability of a high explosive, determined mainly by its detonation pressure.
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British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.
Bruceton, Pennsylvania
Bruceton is an unincorporated suburb of Pittsburgh within Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Bureau of Ordnance
The Bureau of Ordnance (BuOrd) was a United States Navy organization, which was responsible for the procurement, storage, and deployment of all naval weapons, between the years 1862 and 1959.
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C-4 (explosive)
C-4 or Composition C-4 is a common variety of the plastic explosive family known as Composition C, which uses RDX as its explosive agent.
Calcium stearate
Calcium stearate is a carboxylate salt of calcium, classified as a calcium soap.
Canada
Canada is a country in North America.
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Car bomb
A car bomb, bus bomb, van bomb, lorry bomb, or truck bomb, also known as a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED), is an improvised explosive device designed to be detonated in an automobile or other vehicles.
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Carcinogen
A carcinogen is any agent that promotes the development of cancer.
Central Reserve Police Force
The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) is a Central Armed Police Force in India under the Ministry of Home Affairs.
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Composition B
Composition B (Comp B), also known as Hexotol and Hexolite (among others), is a high explosive consisting of castable mixtures of RDX and TNT.
Composition C
The Composition C family is a family of related US-specified plastic explosives consisting primarily of RDX.
Composition H-6
Composition H-6 is a melt-cast military aluminized high explosive.
Conveyor belt
A conveyor belt is the carrying medium of a belt conveyor system (often shortened to belt conveyor).
Cornell University
Cornell University is a private Ivy League land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York.
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Cyclotol
Cyclotol is an explosive consisting of castable mixtures of RDX and TNT.
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Defense Centers for Public Health-Aberdeen
The U.S. Army Public Health Center (APHC) is a United States Army element headquartered at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, United States.
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Demolition
Demolition (also known as razing, cartage, and wrecking) is the science and engineering in safely and efficiently tearing down buildings and other artificial structures.
Depth charge
A depth charge is an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) weapon designed to destroy submarines by detonating in the water near the target and subjecting it to a destructive hydraulic shock.
Detonation velocity
Explosive velocity, also known as detonation velocity or velocity of detonation (VoD), is the velocity at which the shock wave front travels through a detonated explosive.
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Detonator
A detonator, sometimes called a blasting cap in the US, is a small sensitive device used to provoke a larger, more powerful but relatively insensitive secondary explosive of an explosive device used in commercial mining, excavation, demolition, etc.
Dioctyl sebacate
Dioctyl sebacate (also di(2-ethylhexyl) sebacate, commonly abbreviated as DOS, DEHS, and BEHS) is an organic compound which is the diester of sebacic acid and 2-ethylhexanol.
Dunnite
Dunnite, also known as Explosive D or systematically as ammonium picrate, is an explosive developed in 1906 by US Army Major Beverly W. Dunn, who later served as chief inspector of the Bureau of Transportation Explosives.
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DuPont
DuPont de Nemours, Inc., commonly shortened to DuPont, is an American multinational chemical company first formed in 1802 by French-American chemist and industrialist Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours.
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Eastman Chemical Company
Eastman Chemical Company is an American company primarily involved in the chemical industry.
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Ecuador
Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west.
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English Heritage
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that manages over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places.
Explosive
An explosive (or explosive material) is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion if released suddenly, usually accompanied by the production of light, heat, sound, and pressure.
Explosive booster
An explosive booster is a sensitive explosive charge that acts as a bridge between a (relatively weak) conventional detonator and a low-sensitivity (but typically high-energy) explosive such as TNT.
Federal Security Service
The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB or FSS) is the principal security agency of Russia and the main successor agency to the Soviet Union's KGB; its immediate predecessor was the Federal Counterintelligence Service (FSK) which was reorganized into the FSB in 1995.
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Figure of Insensitivity
Figure of Insensitivity (F of I) is an inverse scale of measure of the impact sensitivity of an explosive substance.
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Firearm
A firearm is any type of gun that uses an explosive charge and is designed to be readily carried and used by an individual.
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FOX-7
FOX-7 or 1,1-diamino-2,2-dinitroethylene (DADNE) is an insensitive high explosive compound. RDX and FOX-7 are explosive chemicals.
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
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Grand Slam (bomb)
The Bomb, Medium Capacity, (Grand Slam) was a earthquake bomb used by RAF Bomber Command against German targets towards the end of the Second World War.
Graphite
Graphite is a crystalline form of the element carbon.
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Hercules Inc.
Hercules, Inc. was a chemical and munitions manufacturing company based in Wilmington, Delaware, United States, incorporated in 1912 as the Hercules Powder Company following the breakup of the DuPont explosives monopoly by the U.S. Circuit Court in 1911.
Hexahydro-1,3,5-triazine
In chemistry, hexahydro-1,3,5-triazine is a class of heterocyclic compounds with the formula (CH2NR)3. RDX and hexahydro-1,3,5-triazine are Triazines.
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Hexamethylenetetramine
Hexamethylenetetramine, also known as methenamine, hexamine, or its trade name Urotropin, is a heterocyclic organic compound with the formula (CH2)6N4.
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High Blast Explosive
High Blast Explosive, or HBX, is an explosive used as a bursting charge in missile warheads, mines, depth bombs, depth charges, and torpedoes.
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HMX
HMX, also called octogen, is a powerful and relatively insensitive nitroamine high explosive chemically related to RDX. RDX and HMX are explosive chemicals and nitroamines.
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Holston Army Ammunition Plant
Holston Army Ammunition Plant (HSAAP) manufactures Research Department Explosive (RDX) and High Melting Explosive (HMX) for ammunition production and development.
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Imperial Chemical Industries
Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) was a British chemical company.
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Jaipur bombings
The Jaipur bombings were a series of nine synchronized bomb blasts that took place on 13 May 2008 within a span of fifteen minutes at locations in Jaipur, the capital city of the Indian state of Rajasthan and a tourist destination.
Jaish-e-Mohammed
Jaish-e-Mohammed (جيشِ محمدؐ,, abbreviated as JeM) is a Pakistan-based: "The JEM is a Pakistan-based, militant Islamic group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in March 2000." Deobandi: "Deobandis like Masood Azhar, a graduate of Jamia Binouria who later set up a jihadist outfit named Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) in 2000, reportedly at the behest of Pakistan's military establishment." Jihadist terrorist group active in Kashmir.
James B. Conant
James Bryant Conant (March 26, 1893 – February 11, 1978) was an American chemist, a transformative President of Harvard University, and the first U.S. Ambassador to West Germany.
Jamestown Bridge
The Jamestown Bridge (usually referred to as the Old Jamestown Bridge to avoid confusion with its replacement, the Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge) was a cantilever truss bridge that connected Conanicut Island to mainland North Kingstown, Rhode Island, spanning the West passage of Narragansett Bay.
Karl Dönitz
Karl Dönitz (sometimes spelled Doenitz;; 16 September 189124 December 1980) was a German admiral who briefly succeeded Adolf Hitler as head of state in May 1945, holding the position until the dissolution of the Flensburg Government following Germany's unconditional surrender to the Allies days later.
Kenya Police
The Kenya Police Service is a national body in charge of law enforcement in Kenya.
Letter bomb
A letter bomb is an explosive device sent via the postal service, and designed with the intention to injure or kill the recipient when opened.
List of UN numbers 0001 to 0100
UN numbers from UN 0001 to UN 0100 as assigned by the United Nations Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods are as follows.
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List of UN numbers 0301 to 0400
UN numbers from UN0301 to UN0400 as assigned by the United Nations Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods are as follows.
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List of UN numbers 0401 to 0500
UN numbers from UN0401 to UN0500 as assigned by the United Nations Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods are as follows.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
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Los Angeles International Airport
Los Angeles International Airport is the primary international airport serving Los Angeles and its surrounding metropolitan area, in the U.S. state of California.
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Luftwaffe
The Luftwaffe was the aerial-warfare branch of the Wehrmacht before and during World War II.
McGill University
McGill University (French: Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Mercury(II) fulminate
Mercury(II) fulminate, or Hg(CNO)2, is a primary explosive. RDX and Mercury(II) fulminate are explosive chemicals.
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Military science
Military science is the study of military processes, institutions, and behavior, along with the study of warfare, and the theory and application of organized coercive force.
MK 108 cannon
The MK 108 (German: Maschinenkanone—"machine cannon") is a 30 mm caliber autocannon manufactured in Germany during World War II by Rheinmetall‑Borsig for use in aircraft.
Mole (animal)
Moles are small mammals adapted to a subterranean lifestyle.
National Defense Research Committee
The National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) was an organization created "to coordinate, supervise, and conduct scientific research on the problems underlying the development, production, and use of mechanisms and devices of warfare" in the United States from June 27, 1940, until June 28, 1941.
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Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.
New Year's Eve
In the Gregorian calendar, New Year's Eve, also known as Old Year's Day, is the evening or the entire day of the last day of the year, 31 December.
New York State Department of Transportation
The New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) is the department of the New York state government responsible for the development and operation of highways, railroads, mass transit systems, ports, waterways and aviation facilities in the U.S. state of New York.
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Newport Chemical Depot
The Newport Chemical Depot, previously known as the Wabash River Ordnance Works and the Newport Army Ammunition Plant, was a bulk chemical storage and destruction facility that was operated by the United States Army.
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Nitramide
Nitramide or nitroamine is a chemical compound with the molecular formula. RDX and Nitramide are nitroamines.
Nitration
In organic chemistry, nitration is a general class of chemical processes for the introduction of a nitro group into an organic compound.
Nitric acid
Nitric acid is the inorganic compound with the formula.
Nitrolysis
Nitrolysis is a chemical reaction involving cleavage ("lysis") of a chemical bond concomitant with installation of a nitro group (NO2).
Nitronium ion
The nitronium ion,, is a cation.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is a federally funded research and development center in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States.
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Office of Public Sector Information
The Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) is the body responsible for the operation of His Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) and of other public information services of the United Kingdom.
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Office of Scientific Research and Development
The Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) was an agency of the United States federal government created to coordinate scientific research for military purposes during World War II.
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Operation Chastise
Operation Chastise, commonly known as the Dambusters Raid, was an attack on German dams carried out on the night of 16/17 May 1943 by 617 Squadron RAF Bomber Command, later called the Dam Busters, using special "bouncing bombs" developed by Barnes Wallis.
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Organic compound
Some chemical authorities define an organic compound as a chemical compound that contains a carbon–hydrogen or carbon–carbon bond; others consider an organic compound to be any chemical compound that contains carbon.
Pan Am Flight 103
Pan Am Flight 103 (PA103/PAA103) was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit via a stopover in London and another in New York City.
Paraffin wax
Paraffin wax (or petroleum wax) is a soft colorless solid derived from petroleum, coal, or oil shale that consists of a mixture of hydrocarbon molecules containing between 20 and 40 carbon atoms.
Patent
A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention.
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Pennsylvania State University
The Pennsylvania State University, commonly referred to as Penn State and sometimes by the acronym PSU, is a public state-related land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania.
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Pentaerythritol tetranitrate
Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), also known as PENT, pentyl, PENTA (ПЕНТА, primarily in Russian), TEN (tetraeritrit nitrate), corpent, or penthrite (or, rarely and primarily in German, as nitropenta), is an explosive material. RDX and Pentaerythritol tetranitrate are explosive chemicals.
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Phanerochaete
Phanerochaete is a genus of crust fungi in the family Phanerochaetaceae.
Phlegmatized explosive
A phlegmatized explosive is an explosive that has had an agent (a phlegmatizer) added to stabilize or desensitize it.
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Phytoremediation
Phytoremediation technologies use living plants to clean up soil, air and water contaminated with hazardous contaminants.
Picatinny Arsenal
The Picatinny Arsenal is an American military research and manufacturing facility located on of land in Jefferson and Rockaway Township in Morris County, New Jersey, United States, encompassing Picatinny Lake and Lake Denmark.
Plastic explosive
Plastic explosive is a soft and hand-moldable solid form of explosive material.
Plasticizer
A plasticizer (UK: plasticiser) is a substance that is added to a material to make it softer and more flexible, to increase its plasticity, to decrease its viscosity, and/or to decrease friction during its handling in manufacture.
Polyisobutene
Polyisobutene (polyisobutylene) is a class of organic polymers prepared by polymerization of isobutene.
Polymer-bonded explosive
Polymer-bonded explosives, also called PBX or plastic-bonded explosives, are explosive materials in which explosive powder is bound together in a matrix using small quantities (typically 5–10% by weight) of a synthetic polymer.
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Postictal state
The postictal state is the altered state of consciousness after an epileptic seizure.
R4M
R4M, abbreviation for Rakete, 4 kilogramm, Minenkopf (Rocket, 4 kilogram, Mine-head), also known by the nickname Orkan (Hurricane) due to its distinctive smoke trail when fired, was a folding-fin air-to-air rocket used by the Luftwaffe at the end of World War II.
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Rajiv Gandhi
Rajiv Gandhi (20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991) was an Indian politician who served as the Prime Minister of India from 1984 to 1989.
Rhode Island
Rhode Island (pronounced "road") is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.
Rodenticide
Rodenticides are chemicals made and sold for the purpose of killing rodents. RDX and Rodenticide are Rodenticides.
ROF Bridgwater
Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF) Bridgwater was a factory between the villages of Puriton and Woolavington in the Sedgemoor district of Somerset, England that produced high explosives for munitions.
Room temperature
Room temperature, colloquially, denotes the range of air temperatures most people find comfortable indoors while dressed in typical clothing.
Rossiyskaya Gazeta
(lit) is a Russian newspaper published by the Government of Russia.
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Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.
Royal Arsenal
The Royal Arsenal, Woolwich is an establishment on the south bank of the River Thames in Woolwich in south-east London, England, that was used for the manufacture of armaments and ammunition, proofing, and explosives research for the British armed forces.
Royal Ordnance Factory
Royal Ordnance Factories (ROFs) were munitions factories run by the UK government during and after the Second World War.
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Royal Society of Chemistry
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is a learned society and professional association in the United Kingdom with the goal of "advancing the chemical sciences".
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Self-sustainability
Self-sustainability and self-sufficiency are overlapping states of being in which a person, being, or system needs little or no help from, or interaction with others.
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Semtex
Semtex is a general-purpose plastic explosive containing RDX and PETN.
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Sewage sludge
Sewage sludge is the residual, semi-solid material that is produced as a by-product during sewage treatment of industrial or municipal wastewater.
Shaped charge
A shaped charge is an explosive charge shaped to focus the effect of the explosive's energy.
Smokeless powder
Finnish smokeless powder Smokeless powder is a type of propellant used in firearms and artillery that produces less smoke and less fouling when fired compared to black powder.
Status epilepticus
Status epilepticus (SE), or status seizure, is a medical condition consisting of a single seizure lasting more than 5 minutes, or 2 or more seizures within a 5-minute period without the person returning to normal between them.
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Stearic acid
Stearic acid is a saturated fatty acid with an 18-carbon chain.
Sublimation (phase transition)
Sublimation is the transition of a substance directly from the solid to the gas state, without passing through the liquid state.
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Sulfamic acid
Sulfamic acid, also known as amidosulfonic acid, amidosulfuric acid, aminosulfonic acid, sulphamic acid and sulfamidic acid, is a molecular compound with the formula H3NSO3.
Tallboy (bomb)
Tallboy or Bomb, Medium Capacity, 12,000 lb was an earthquake bomb developed by the British aeronautical engineer Barnes Wallis and used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War.
Terrorism
Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims.
The Economic Times
The Economic Times is an Indian English-language business-focused daily newspaper.
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The Times of India
The Times of India, also known by its abbreviation TOI, is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group.
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Tizard Mission
The Tizard Mission, officially the British Technical and Scientific Mission, was a delegation from the United Kingdom that visited the United States during World War II to share secret research and development (R&D) work that had military applications.
TNT
Trinitrotoluene, more commonly known as TNT (and more specifically 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene), and by its preferred IUPAC name 2-methyl-1,3,5-trinitrobenzene, is a chemical compound with the formula C6H2(NO2)3CH3.
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TNT equivalent
TNT equivalent is a convention for expressing energy, typically used to describe the energy released in an explosion.
Torpedo
A modern torpedo is an underwater ranged weapon launched above or below the water surface, self-propelled towards a target, and with an explosive warhead designed to detonate either on contact with or in proximity to the target.
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Torpex
Torpex ("Torpedo explosive") is a secondary explosive, 50% more powerful than TNT by mass.
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Toxic encephalopathy
Toxic encephalopathy is a neurologic disorder caused by exposure to neurotoxic organic solvents such as toluene, following exposure to heavy metals such as manganese, as a side effect of melarsoprol treatment for African trypanosomiasis, adverse effects to prescription drugs, or exposure to extreme concentrations of any natural toxin such as cyanotoxins found in shellfish or freshwater cyanobacteria crusts.
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U-boat
U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
United States Bureau of Mines
For most of the 20th century, the United States Bureau of Mines (USBM) was the primary United States government agency conducting scientific research and disseminating information on the extraction, processing, use, and conservation of mineral resources.
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United States Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with environmental protection matters.
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University of Michigan
The University of Michigan (U-M, UMich, or simply Michigan) is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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USB flash drive
A flash drive (also thumb drive, memory stick, and pen drive/pendrive elsewhere) is a data storage device that includes flash memory with an integrated USB interface.
Vacuum
A vacuum (vacuums or vacua) is space devoid of matter.
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Vickers Wellington
The Vickers Wellington is a British twin-engined, long-range medium bomber.
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills
The Royal Gunpowder Mills are a former industrial site in Waltham Abbey, England.
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Wax
Waxes are a diverse class of organic compounds that are lipophilic, malleable solids near ambient temperatures.
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Werner Emmanuel Bachmann
Werner Emmanuel Bachmann (November 13, 1901 – March 22, 1951) was an American chemist.
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William H. P. Blandy
William Henry Purnell Blandy (28 June 1890 – 12 January 1954), known to close associates as "Spike", was an admiral in the United States Navy during World War II.
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Woolwich
Woolwich is a town in southeast London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
1993 Bombay bombings
The 1993 Bombay bombings was a series of 12 terrorist bombings that took place in Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra, on 12 March 1993.
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1999 Russian apartment bombings
In September 1999, a series of explosions hit four apartment blocks in the Russian cities of Buynaksk, Moscow, and Volgodonsk, killing more than 300, injuring more than 1,000, and spreading a wave of fear across the country.
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2000 millennium attack plots
A series of Islamist terrorist attacks linked to al-Qaeda were planned to occur on or near January 1, 2000, in the context of millennium celebrations, including bombing plots against four tourist sites in Jordan, the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX),, and the hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight 814.
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2004 Russian aircraft bombings
On the night of 24 August 2004, explosive devices were detonated on board two domestic passenger flights that had taken off from Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, causing the destruction of both aircraft and the loss of all 90 people on board them.
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2006 Mumbai train bombings
The 2006 Mumbai train bombings were a series of seven bomb blasts on 11 July.
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2010 Moscow Metro bombings
The 2010 Moscow Metro bombings were suicide bombings carried out by two female Islamic terrorists during the morning rush hour of March 29, 2010, at two stations of the Moscow Metro (Lubyanka and Park Kultury), with roughly 40 minutes in between.
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2019 Pulwama attack
The 2019 Pulwama attack occurred on 14 February 2019, when a convoy of vehicles carrying Indian security personnel on the Jammu–Srinagar National Highway was attacked by a vehicle-borne suicide bomber at Lethapora in the Pulwama district of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.
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See also
Nitroamines
- Ammonium dinitramide
- Ethylenedinitramine
- HHTDD
- HMX
- Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane
- Nitramide
- Nitroamine
- Nitrourea
- RDX
- TEX (explosive)
- Tetryl
- Trinitramide
Rodenticides
- Α-Naphthylthiourea
- 1,3-Difluoro-2-propanol
- 2,4-Dinitrophenol
- 2-Fluoroethanol
- 4-Hydroxycoumarins
- Aluminium phosphide
- Brodifacoum
- Bromethalin
- Calcium phosphide
- Chloralose
- Chlorophenylsilatrane
- Cholecalciferol
- Copper(II) arsenate
- D-CON
- Difethialone
- Diphenadione
- Flocoumafen
- Fluoroacetamide
- Flupropadine
- Norbormide
- Paris green
- Phenylsilatrane
- Phosacetim
- Pindone
- Powdered corn cob
- Pyrinuron
- RDX
- Rat Candy
- Rodenticide
- Scilliroside
- Sodium fluoroacetate
- T-1152
- Tetramethylenedisulfotetramine
- Thallium(I) sulfate
- Vitamin K antagonist
- Zinc phosphide
References
Also known as 1,3,5-Trinitrohexahydro-s-triazine, 1,3,5-Trinitroperhydro-1,3,5-triazine, 1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazacyclohexane, Bachmann process, C3H6N6O6, Cyclo-trimethylene trinitramine, Cyclonit, Cyclonite, Cyclotrimethylene trinitramine, Cyclotrimethylene-trinitramine, Cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine, Hexagen, Hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-s-triazine, Hexahydro-trinitro-triazane, Hexogen, Hexolite, RDXold, Research Department Explosive, Trimethylenetrinitramine, Woolwich method, Woolwich process.