Sentence examples for detonate with from inspiring English sources

Still others detonate with a button or a wire touched to a battery.

If a ship is hit by enemy fire, its magazine of high-explosive shells can detonate, with potentially devastating consequences.

"Alas we cannot hope to compete in sheer tonnage of TNT that we put up into the air and detonate with our fireworks display," Johnson said.

Pages in a notebook left by a student include diagrams on assembling briefcase and car bombs, or building a device to detonate with a timer made from a clock.

PETN is difficult to detonate with a naked flame, as demonstrated by the shoe bomber Richard Reid, who tried to bring down an American Airlines flight in 2001 with PETN concealed in one of his boots.

She threatens to expose him, but Bishop informs the group of a greater danger: the power plant was damaged during the battle, and will soon detonate with the force of a 40-megaton thermonuclear weapon.

Composition B (60% RDX + 40% TNT) detonates with 7900 m/s detonation velocity and applying 268 kPa (38,870,137,116 psi) peak pressure with a fatal radius of 20 m.

Styles also felt that the potential bomb was unlikely to have been detonated with a remote detonator on account of the buildings between the scenes of the shootings and the likelihood that it would be drowned out by other radio signals in the area.

The first truth bomb is detonated with an odd elegance.

On May 13 two more tactical devices were detonated, with reported yields of 0.2 and 0.6 kiloton.

This mixture not only casts perfectly but can be detonated with a smaller tetryl booster.