| | Explosive material -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | High Explosives explode in supersonic reactions and without confinement, are compounds, are initiated by shock or heat and have high (The shattering or crushing effect of a sudden release of energy as in an explosion) brisance (the shattering effect of an explosion). |
 | | Explosives are classified as low or high explosives according to their rates of ((biology) decaying caused by bacterial or fungal action) decomposition. |
 | | All of the standard military explosives may be considered to be of a high order of stability at temperatures of -10 to +35 °C, but each has a high temperature at which the rate of ((biology) decaying caused by bacterial or fungal action) decomposition becomes rapidly accelerated and stability is reduced. |
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