Sentence example with the word 'detonate'

detonate

backfire, blow up, cock, explode, fire off, gun, load, pick off, potshoot, set off, stoke, touch off

Definition v. cause to burst with a violent release of energy

Last update: October 28, 2015


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The bomb planted in the railway station failed to detonate.   [Please select]

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Deep in the forest a tree detonated with the frost.   [Please select]

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The products of perfectly detonated gun-cotton may be expressed by the following equation:-- 2C_{12}H_{14}O_{4}(NO_{3})_{6} = 18CO + 6CO_{2} + 14H_{2}O + 12N.   [Please select]

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Brown, of Woolwich Arsenal, discovered that perfectly wet and uninflammable compressed gun-cotton could be easily detonated by the detonation of a priming charge of the dry material in contact with it.   [Please select]

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