Sentence examples for explosive used from inspiring English sources

The American soldiers showed only a technical interest in identifying the planes that passed overhead and guessing the kind of explosive used from the sound of the explosion and color of the smoke.

There have also been reports that the explosive used in the Nairobi bombing was ammonium nitrate.

Often the yield of fragmented ice was no greater than the mass of explosive used.

The network outputs include burden, spacing and total weight of explosive used.

An explosive used to train bomb-sniffing dogs at Newark Liberty International Airport is missing, officials confirmed yesterday.

The package contained pentaerythritol trinitrate (PETN), the same explosive used in the Detroit plot, police said in a statement.

The police had no immediate information on the size of the bomb or the type of explosive used.

Officials said examination of the Cole indicated that the explosive used was even more sophisticated than initially thought.

"The explosive used was of very high quality," the official, Shafqat Malik, said in a telephone interview.

The 11kg of explosive used in the bomb was sent in a diplomatic bag to the apartheid spymaster in London, Peter Casselton.

These experts said the explosive used was one favored by Palestinian bombers, who have nicknamed devices with the material Mother of Satan.