A charge of compressed wet guncotton may be exploded, even under water, by the detonation of a small primer of the dry and waterproofed material, which in turn can be started by a small fulminate detonator.
A container belonging to the defendant shipowners exploded whilst on the terminal and destroyed a straddle carrier and terminal tug and trailer.
A few months after his return, through Germany, to London in 1815, he was induced to take up the question of constructing a miner's safety lamp. Experiments with samples of fire-damp sent from Newcastle soon taught him that "explosive mixtures of mine-damp will not pass through small apertures or tubes"; and in a paper read before the Royal Society on the 9th of November he showed that metallic tubes, being better conductors of heat, were superior to glass ones, and explained that the heat lost by contact with a large cooling surface brought the temperature of the first portions of gas exploded below that required for the firing of the other portions.
A great opportunity spurned or just massive hype exploded?
A shockwave exploded from the gateway and knocked her back.
Alarms sounded a few moments before the doors exploded off their hinges.
Although the legend of Flight 19 usually states that a rescue plane mysteriously disappeared, the military records indicate the aircraft seemed to have exploded.
An incendiary vessel was exploded close to the works without effect on the 23rd-24th of December, and the ships engaged on the 24th.
Another boom, and the edges of the door lit up and spit fire as the rocket exploded in Andre's apartment.
As few scholars will now claim priority for the text of Deuteronomy, this division may be viewed as exploded.
As he stood on the quarter-deck of the "Trinity" a cannon close by was exploded by a Swedish bullet, and splinters of wood and metal wounded the king in thirteen places, blinding one eye and flinging him to the deck.
As more brides choose to go with a modern wedding scheme, the accessories industry has exploded with unique invitation options.
As stun grenades exploded, he was grabbed sharply by the arm.
As the popularity of YouTube exploded, more and more website creators founded new video sharing websites, so that today you now have hundreds of online resources available where you can upload and store all of your family videos.
At Erh-Lung on the 20th of November three mines were exploded, which half filled the ditch, and the Japanese later on sapped across to the escarp over the debris.
Below, floats, markers and exploded ordnance decorate the wall of one of the cottages.
Both cell doors had exploded off the cells and lay crumpled across the room.
Brady threw himself down, rolled, and ran, taking cover behind a boulder as the laser missile exploded the ground in front of him.
But since the first MegaDrive emulator was released to the world, the scene has exploded.
Butler approached the fort on the 10th of December 1864; on the 24th the "Louisiana," loaded with 215 tons of powder, was exploded 400 yds.
By 1928, the structure and the residential population exploded into a patient count of over three thousand residents.
By the lastnamed he finally exploded a fallacy which had up to that time vitiated the chronology of contemporary Egyptologists.
Cheerleading, as a sport, has exploded with competitions in all 50 states as well as televised National Championships.
Children's couture describes a relatively new concept that has exploded onto the fashion scene in recent decades, mostly due to Hollywood's celebrity baby boom.
Christie Brinkley's quiet separation from her husband of 10 years, Peter Cook, exploded into media melodrama when rumors emerged that Cook had an affair with a then 18-year-old employee of his architecture firm.
Damian would've exploded by now, probably decimating everything in the vicinity.
Equipped with dual screens (DS), a built-in microphone, and a touch screen, the Nintendo DS exploded onto the US market in November 2004.
Every episode, something exploded.
Fire exploded in her gullet as an arrow pierced her from behind.
Flo Rida's first single, Low, gained popularity in late 2007 and exploded into a multi-platinum hit over the next year.
From there, as the web exploded, they were starting to work on the company website, and so the CEO thought of bringing in "superhero guy" as I seemed to know what I was doing.
Furious but grateful for the chance to move before she exploded at him, Jessi forced her rubbery legs to cooperate and descended to the front door.
Godzilla exploded on to the scene in 1954 in the film Godzilla King of the Monsters as the result of a nuclear explosion.
Hand Grenades Grenades in 1914 were exploded wither by percussion or by igniting a fuse.
He entered her at the same time he bit her, and her world exploded into hot desire and need so intense, she thought his passion would consume her.
He heard Hannah crying and smelled the unmistakable scent of human blood before he took a step onto the block. He strode down the block and paused in front of Hannah's cell. She was curled up on the bed, sobbing. When he looked at the cell across from her, he saw why. Jared stood in the cell, covered in blood. The cell looked as if a human had exploded, and Rhyn saw a pile of bones Jared had gnawed clean then stacked neatly.
He ran toward the sacred temple, suddenly thrown off his feet as a mine in the valley where his men were based exploded.
He regards the Ontological argument strictly so called as having been exploded by Kant.
He turned to address Dan, when the sagging building behind them exploded into flames and light.
He used an egg and both of them watched as the egg heated, cooked, and exploded from the internal rise of temperature.
He watched the visual before him as one mine, then the next and the next, exploded and spewed toxic dust into the atmosphere.
Henna tattoos were once a strictly Eastern tradition, but as tattoo body art has exploded in the West, henna has become much more common.
Her scandalous downhill slide began when she married him, continued when she divorced him and exploded when she fought him for custody of their kids.
His character eventually exploded in one episode over New York City.
His remark punctured a hole in her thin armor and she exploded, slamming the papers onto her desktop so hard that one of the pages floated to the floor.
How it transitioned from its humble beginnings and exploded onto the urban fashion market is a prime example of just how much of an impact shoes can have!
I remember that on the night it finally exploded we all slithered down to the beach to watch.
I was in my cabin at the time and heard a loud humming noise just before the first torpedo exploded.
If this dream or prejudice be exploded, then the scepticism originating in it - and a large proportion of recent sceptical thought does so originate - loses its raison d'etre.
In 1987 an extraordinary astronomical event took place - the light from an exploded star in a nearby galaxy was seen from Earth.
In 2002, one minor brand of toaster oven was recalled because the heating element overheated and exploded the glass on the oven door, all because of bad construction.
In 2004, some Motorola phones for Nextel had batteries that exploded.
In 2007, Spears' personal problems exploded in the news.
In addition to his philosophical work, AzaIs studied music under his father, Pierre Hyacinthe AzaIs (1743-1796), professor of music at Soreze and Toulouse, and composer of sacred music in the style of Gossec. He wrote for the Revue musicale a series of articles entitled Acoustique fondamentale (1831), containing an ingenious, but now exploded, theory of the vibration of the air.
In addition to the home tour, you'll cruise past many sites of movie magic, like the house that "exploded" in Lethal Weapon and the fire escape where Julia Roberts and Richard Gere sealed the deal in Pretty Woman.
In order to get rid of hydrogen, some oxygen is added to the helium, and the mixture exploded by an electric spark.
In the mid-1990s, file-sharing websites like Napster appeared on the net and exploded in popularity as users logged on and traded music with one another free of charge.
Iraqi police say there was a large crowd of people near the station when the vehicle exploded.
It exploded on the scene like volley of photon torpedoes on May 10, 2009, just two days after the release of Star Trek (2009) in theaters, and today is the busiest Star Trek page on Life Journal.
It flew across the parlor, and the plate exploded.
It is a striking example of the difficulty of getting people to use their own powers of investigation accurately, that this form of the doctrine of evolution should have held its ground so long; for it was thoroughly and completely exploded, not long after its enunciation, by Caspar Frederick Wolff, who in his Theoria generationis, published in 1759, placed the opposite theory of epigenesis upon the secure foundation of fact, from which it has never been displaced.
It was loud and dirty, the type of work they'd ceased two centuries before when the human population exploded and globalized.
It would be impossible now to trace the steps which led to this wild and long since exploded theory.
Jack Nicholson - Though he started acting in the late 1950's, it was in the 1970's when his career really exploded.
Jackson exploded, When are you going to get it?
Just as fast, it exploded into light again, as Bianca's charged healing power slammed through her.
Just like a human, he was sometimes delightful to be around and other times you wanted to bang on the aquarium glass until his eardrums exploded.
Laws as to patronage, an inflammatory question, were made, abolished and remade, causing, from about 1730 onwards, passions which exploded in the great Disruption of 1842.
Legends of Atlantis reconsidered in the light of the Egyptian exploded planet cult.
Light exploded into her mind as she hit the bottom, followed by darkness.
Light exploded into his thoughts.
Lightening exploded between him and his dinner, knocking him back.
Lightning exploded in the sky.
Long a darling among the rich and famous, Bulgari's popularity exploded into the mainstream during the late 20th century.
Looks like something exploded.
Mansr closed the door as another mine exploded and guided the spacecraft farther off the ground.
No one knew her name this time last year, but late last year, Lily Allen exploded onto the UK music scene, armed with that rare combination of critical praise AND chart topping hits.
None had time to grab the weapons under their cots before gunfire exploded through the garage door and slammed into them.
On 17 May, a faulty grenade prematurely exploded killing Tom.
On January 28, 1986, the world watch as the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded moments after lift-off, killing everyone on board.
On the 17th of November seven mines were exploded at Sung-Shu, which blew in the back of the counterscarp galleries.
On the 30th of July the Federal engineers exploded a mine under the hostile works, and Burnside's corps rushed to the assault.
On the 4th of December 1891 an attempt was made to assassinate him in his office by one Henry Norcross, who demanded a large sum of money, and upon being refused exploded a dynamite bomb, and was himself killed.'
On their advance to the outworks of the garrison the magazine of the fort exploded, whether by accident or design, killing many of the invaders.
Once more something whistled, but this time quite close, swooping downwards like a little bird; a flame flashed in the middle of the street, something exploded, and the street was shrouded in smoke.
Online casinos grew fairly slowly, as online services go, until about the year 2000; this was the year they really exploded.
Originally founded on just one school, Arizona State University, the calendar has expanded (some would say exploded) to include girls from other colleges as well.
Owing to the conditions of the work, which require the maintenance of a sensibly reducing atmosphere, they contain a very notable proportion of carbonic oxide, and are drawn off by large wrought iron tubes near the top of the furnace and conveyed by branch pipes to the different boilers and air-heating apparatus, which are now entirely heated by the combustion of such gases, or mixed with air and exploded in gas engines.
Palm tree pendants and necklaces have always been popular, but their appeal exploded in 2008 with the release of the romantic comedy Fool's Gold, starring Kate Hudson.
Popular fantasy exploded with references in short stories and movies in the twentieth century.
Recent investigation has exploded this romantic story by simply showing that Charles VII.
Renewed interest in the fairy world exploded.
Scrapbooking is a hobby that has literally exploded in the last decade, and shows no signs of waning.
She sat on one suitcase, nearly bending it in two while unlatching the other until it exploded open, scattering contents about the porch.
She slammed her door and rested her head against it, wondering how long this would continue before her head exploded.
She watched in fascination, not understanding what it was until a floor several below hers exploded into flying stone and fire.
She'd just sat down again when the inner door exploded into rocks that flew across the room.
Since digital cameras exploded onto the photography market, image editing has become a popular pastime for amateur and professional photographers.
Since the mid-1990s, the genetic engineering industry has exploded.
Something exploded outside and she screamed.
Ten bombs exploded on trains in Madrid on 11 March 2004.
Thanks to the advancements in cosmetology, face makeup opportunities have essentially exploded.
That idea is now exploded, and the acts apply to charitable institutions which receive persons of the class ordinarily received into common lodging-houses.
The ' ancient astronaut ' theory reconsidered in the light of the Egyptian exploded planet cult.
The bomb exploded early Friday morning about 200 meters from a mosque in the New Baghdad district, southeast of the capital.
The choices we have in cell phones have exploded in recent years.
The disk is dispensed with, and the percussion cap is exploded by the impact of a leaden weight running on a cord.
The door exploded open in flames, wood, and black fur.
The egg fell, and she gasped as it exploded on contact with the floor.
The first shell fell on one of the limbers, exploded the ammunition and caused several casualties.
The Five Galaxies have just exploded with war.
The glass carafe exploded.
The idea is exploded that auriferous loded that auriferous lodes necessarily improve in value with depth.
The idea of Meteos is that a planet has exploded and is sending colored shards of itself onto neighboring worlds.
The Internet has exploded with websites offering valentine e-cards to people who would rather use technology rather than old fashion snail mail.
The last time she pushed, he had exploded, What, so I can be like you?
The mill was working in 1904, as a boiler exploded and badly scalded three men.
The number of these programs has exploded in recent years, so finding a lesson plan that suits you should be a snap.
The official naval hearing concluded the rescue plane of three aviators and 13 crew exploded.
The old fable of this bird inserting its beak into a reed or plunging it into the ground, and so causing the booming sound with which its name will be always associated, is also exploded, and nowadays indeed so few people in Britain have ever heard its loud and awful voice, which seems to be uttered only in the breeding-season, and is therefore unknown in a country where it no longer breeds, that incredulity as to its booming at all has in some quarters succeeded the old belief in this as in other reputed peculiarites of the species.
The outcome of it was the despatch of some five or six Chouan desperadoes to Paris, three of whom exploded an infernal machine close to Bonaparte's carriage in the narrow streets near the Tuileries (3rd Nivose [24th of December] 1800).
The phenomenon may have had some humble beginnings with early Guitar Hero titles, but rhythm games have quickly exploded into huge popularity (and profitability for developers).
The rocket had exploded as it landed on the floor, leaving a gaping hole.
The series exploded into popularity with an abbreviated first season premiering in March of 2005 with just nine episodes.
The single exploded onto the pop scene, going platinum and shooting up to number one in several countries.
The slightest alteration in the chemical balance would result immediately in a race of exploded beetles.
The squib is lowered after the torpedo, and, when exploded by the descent of the weight, fires the charge.
The use of mineral makeup really exploded in the beauty market in recent years.
The vamp's head exploded with the first shot of his hand cannon, the bullet missing Bianca by a couple inches.
The world exploded into life, sucking the air from her lungs and drenching her.
Their "firedamp" (formerly fulminating damp) is marsh gas, which, when mixed with air and exploded, produced "choke damp," "after damp," or "suffocating damp" (carbon dioxide).
Then the handbag market exploded because higher end designers targeted the lower end of the market, allowing even middle class women to have a taste of wealth.
There is hardly one of Wagner's orchestral innovations which is not inseparably connected with his adaptation of music to the re q uirements of drama; and modern conductors, in treating Wagner's orchestration, as the normal standard by which all previous and contemporary music must be judged, are doing their best to found a tradition which in another fifty years will be exploded as thoroughly as the tradition of symphonic additional accompaniments is now exploded in the performances of Bach and Handel.
There will often be an exploded view of each model with a list of replacement parts and even replacement faucet recommendations.
These concessions allayed the prevailing unrest for a time, but the Royalist and Nationalist parties continued secretly to intrigue against one another, and in February 1908, while the shah was driving in Teheran, two bombs were exploded under his motor-car.
These started out with the bird simply sitting there on the screen, but as the bit went on, the birds were smashed, crushed, shattered, beheaded, or exploded in a flurry of feathers or a splatter of pinkish goo.
They exploded into pebbles and dust.
They finally exploded the pretensions of the Textus Receptus to be the original text; but neither of them gave any explanation of the relations of the later text to the earlier, nor developed Griesbach's system of dealing with groups of MSS.
They made a hasty exit into the passage that led to their rooms whence muffled laughter exploded.
This form of community-based information sharing has exploded onto the internet and is an amazing way to learn what you need to know.
This is in part because homeschooling as truly exploded over the last decade.
This theory Gibbon completely exploded in his Critical Observations (1770) - no very difficult task, indeed, but achieved in a style, and with a profusion of learning, which called forth the warmest commendations both at home and abroad.
This year so far we have made slime, trick water bottles and straws, exploded eggs and dissected chicken thighs.
Three very pretty purple shells with persistent comet trails exploded overhead (video clip 1 below ).
Three very pretty purple shells with persistent comet trails exploded overhead (video clip 1 below).
Thunder exploded and then the hail started, drumming on the roof like large marbles.
To begin, Alan Alford explains that the religions of the Near East were exploded planet cults.
To explode the charge an iron weight, known as a go-devil, was dropped into the well, and striking the disk exploded the cap and fired the torpedo.
Too fast, he felt the buffers' effect on his powers lessen, and magic exploded through him.
Undoubtedly, the popularity of tribal tats has exploded in recent years.
Until the Internet exploded on the scene that was the way you found and procured just about anything you could want that wasn't available in your town, from clothing to spices to specialty tools and craft supplies.
We all know that technology has exploded in the past ten years, but did you also know that this translates to sports as well?
We have exploded the myth that ASU policies should cover income loss for no more than 12 months, " York said.
When aerobic exercise exploded onto the fitness scene in the early 1980s, thanks largely to videos by Jane Fonda, leotards and headbands became fashionable accessories.
When two substances which by their action upon each other develop much heat enter into reaction, the reaction is usually complete without the employment of an excess of either; for example, when a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen, in the proportions to form water 2E12+0, =20H2, is exploded, it is entirely converted into water.
With a simple start as a color enhanced nail polish, the business exploded and within six years had become a multi-million dollar company.
You also want the other pieces you choose to go with the corset to pull your look together; not look like a thrift store exploded on your body.