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Low explosive: Type of explosive. [e]
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Parent topics
- Explosives [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gunpowder [r]: Generically, a low explosive used as a propellant, now smokeless powder; the older black powder was used as a warhead filler before the invention of high explosives; also used in pyrotechnics [e]
Subtopics
- Single-base propellant [r]: Type of explosive [e]
- Double-base propellant [r]: A form of smokeless gunpowder with the primary constituents being nitrocellulose and a plasticizer, such as nitroglycerin or BTN [e]
- Triple-base propellant [r]: Artillery catalyst [e]
- Potassium nitrate [r]: KNO3, an oxidizing agent, the major constituent of black gunpowder and a food preservative known as saltpeter [e]
- Charcoal (material) [r]: An ingredient made from the destructive heating and blackening of wood, without burning and oxidation [e]
- Sulphur [r]: A yellowish crystalline chemical element with the symbol S and the atomic number of 16. [e]