Explosives
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Explosives
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Meaning of Explosives
Any substances by whose decomposition or combustion, a gas is generated with such rapidity that it can be used for blasting or in firearms, etc. Explosives include gunpowder, nitroglycerine, blasting powders, dynamite, gun cotton, fulminate of mercury or other such metals, colored powders used in fireworks , fog signals, cartridges and other ammunition. Any article manufactured for the purpose of producing an effect by explosion.
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See Also
Bomb damage, forensic assessment; Bomb detection devices; Bomb (explosion) investigations.
Arms Race and Disarmament; Nuclear Weapons; World War II, Air War against Japan.
Assumption of Risk; Dominant Cause; Producing Cause; Proximate Cause.
Air plume and chemical analysis; Bomb damage, forensic assessment; Bomb (explosion) investigations; Oklahoma bombing; September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks (forensic investigations of); Unabomber case and trial; World Trade Center, 1993 terrorist attack.
Further Reading
Brown, G. I. The Big Bang: A History of Explosives. Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton, 1998.
"The Commercial Explosives Industry." The Institute of Makers of Explosives. Available at https://www.ime.org/commercialindustry.htm.
"200 Years of History." E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. Available at https://www.dupont.com/corp/overview/history.
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