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Detonating adj., n. From Detonate.

Detonating gas, a mixture of two volumes of hydrogen with one volume of oxygen, which explodes with a loud report upon ignition.

Detonating powder, any powder or solid substance, as fulminate of mercury, which when struck, explodes with violence and a loud report.

Detonating primer, a primer exploded by a fuse; used to explode gun cotton in blasting operations.

Detonating tube, a strong tube of glass, usually graduated, closed at one end, and furnished with two wires passing through its sides at opposite points, and nearly meeting, for the purpose of exploding gaseous mixtures by an electric spark, as in gas analysis, etc.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Detonating" Quotes from Famous Books

... revolted against the moneyed mediocracy of this country,—a position in which he deserves much sympathy,—and perhaps this underlies his want of deep literary identification with the national character in general. But more probably his genius was a detonating agent which could have been convulsed into its meet activity anywhere, and had nothing to do with a soil. It is significant that he was taken up by a group of men in Paris, headed by Baudelaire and assisted ...

— A Study Of Hawthorne • George Parsons Lathrop

... to their plunge, instantaneously converted into fire; a gory-hued river of fused minerals; volumes of hissing steam arising; some curling upward from ten thousand vents, which give utterance to as many deep-toned mutterings, and sullen, confined clamorings; gases detonating and shrieking as they burst from their hot prison-house; the heavens lurid with flame; the atmosphere dark and oppressive; the horizon murky with vapors and gleaming with ...

— The San Francisco Calamity • Various

... there was a hang-fire, and the explosive burned instead of detonating, so that one of the shops caught, and there was no little ...

— Tom Swift and his Big Tunnel - or, The Hidden City of the Andes • Victor Appleton

... fused with what are called detonating fuses that burst when the shell touches anything. It should have exploded when it struck the ground in front of us. If it had we would have had about one chance in a thousand. Again, when it struck the tree it should have blown up. The ...

— The Red Watch - With the First Canadian Division in Flanders • J. A. Currie

... to be had, the cannonade was much brisker, as then a plug was not needed. The hole in the lower anvil was filled with powder, and the other anvil was placed over it. This was much quicker than pounding in a plug, and had quite as striking and detonating an effect. The upper anvil gave a heave, like Mark Twain's shot-laden frog, and fell over on its side. The smoke rolled up as usual, and ...

— In the Midst of Alarms • Robert Barr