Sentence examples for could have detonated from inspiring English sources

David Leggett, a chemical safety expert based in California, told Reuters the acetylene explosion could have detonated the ammonium nitrate, explaining the second and larger explosion.

Thus when the Walits and Mr. Cochran turned on the cellar light, the electric pulse inside the switch could have detonated the accumulated gas, the chief said.

Shaheedullah Shaheed, a spokesman for the governor of Wardak Province, said that some explosives might have remained in the mosque after the raid and that they could have detonated when the civilians rushed in.

But after the two minutes, they say, the missile's warhead of high-yield conventional explosive could have detonated with the force of one to two tons of TNT, causing extensive damage to deck structures in the front and near the conning tower.

Four rubber seat cushions inadvertently stowed near a heat vent in the cockpit of a B-52 set the plane on fire, forced the crew to bail out mid-flight, and could have detonated hydrogen bombs at one of America's most important, top-secret military installations.

ES: The reporters in 1980 were hampered by their lack of ability to know the truth, which was that this warhead could have detonated.

Abandoned cars, trucks or other vehicles may have detonated a mine, and more could be close by.

I was not her, a self I could have become; had I been born a generation prior, I may have detonated such explosives.

Would Mennonites of old have detonated it?

North Korea claims to have detonated its first hydrogen bomb yesterday.

"Dead men have detonated this stuff".