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Explosives
An explosive material is a material that either is chemically or otherwise energetically unstable or produces a sudden expansion of the material usually accompanied by the production of heat and large changes in pressure (and typically also a flash and/or loud noise) upon initiation; this is called the explosion.
Dumbass Alaska State Troopers, Army, And ATF Agents “Dispose” Of Box Of Fireworks With 30 *POUNDS* Of C-4 Plastic Explosives, Scaring Residents And Breaking Windows In Homes - “In Retrospect, The Military Explosives And Neighborhood Evacuation Seemed A Little Like Overkill”
BIG LAKE, ALASKA - Friday would have been a regular day out at McGhan Storage near Big Lake, but then the family of Clay Holzl, a deceased pyrotechnician, came across a large box of fireworks while sorting through his unit...
Somali and Nigerian Explosives Not the Same
Are the foiled airplane bomb attempts of Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab last week in Detroit and the one last month in Somalia the same? The tools may have been the same -- liquid, a syringe and powdered material -- but the explosives apprently weren't: In the Somali's attempt there were three parts with powders and liquids: The suspect, Abdi Hassan Abdi, tried to board a Daallo Airlines flight with a plastic bag containing 600 grams of ammonium nitrate and half a liter of concentrated sulfuric acid in a plastic bottle, according to Wafula Waminyinyi, the deputy special representative for the African Union Mission for Somalia...
Never joke about explosives in your underwear
Especially if you're about to board an airplane.
"W.T.C. 7 Brought Down by Fire, Not Explosives, Report Says."
"Heating of floor beams and girders caused a critical support column to fail... video and photographic evidence combined with detailed computer simulations show that neither explosives nor fuel oils played a rule in the collapse of that brought the building down...
MO man needed explosives for "the end of the world," police say
Police say a 22-year-old man, who believes the world will end in 2012, stole a gob of C4 -- about 50 pounds worth -- from a police training area near St...
BATFE explosives ruling overturned
Summary and link to opinion here. Issue was whether a model rocket fuel crossed the line from "burns fast" into "explosive...
















