explosive compound

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explosive compound - a compound that is explosive cordite - explosive powder (nitroglycerin and guncotton and petrolatum) dissolved in acetone and dried and extruded in brown cordsdynamite - an explosive containing nitrate sensitized with nitroglycerin absorbed on wood pulpexplosive - a chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struckplastic explosive, plastique - an explosive material that is easily molded around the object it is intended to destroyTNT, trinitrotoluene - explosive consisting of a yellow crystalline compound that is a flammable toxic derivative of toluene