Explosive material

:This article is concerned solely with chemical explosives. There are many other varieties of more exotic explosive material, and theoretical methods of causing explosions such as nuclear explosives and antimatter, and other methods of producing explosions, such as abrupt heating with a high-intensity laser or electric arc.

Related Topics:
Chemical - Nuclear explosive - Antimatter - Laser - Electric arc

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Any explosive material has the following characteristics:

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• It is chemically or otherwise energetically unstable.
• The initiation produces a sudden expansion of the material accompanied by the production of heat and large changes in pressure (and typically also a flash or loud noise) which is called the explosion.
 
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