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detonator

/det-n-ey-ter/US // ˈdɛt nˌeɪ tər //UK // (ˈdɛtəˌneɪtə) //

雷管,炸药

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a device, as a percussion cap, used to make another substance explode.
    • : something that explodes.

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Examples

  • I was the one to trigger the detonator, and for that I take full responsibility.

  • “I press the detonator and I am the only one responsible,” Trierweiler writes of the tweet, as excerpted Wednesday in Le Monde.

  • After agents went into the van and confirmed that the detonator had been activated, they arrested him.

  • I like to say that I was like a bomb but the detonator was missing.

  • Perhaps a ceramic detonator, disguised as a perfectly legal 3-oz.

  • Anything made of iron and containing high explosive and detonator will be welcome.

  • It looked as if Charnock was putting in the dynamite, and Festing hoped he would be careful with the detonator.

  • But if it ever came down to it I should be able to knock down an airplane, gum up the works on a fusing detonator, maybe even—.

  • Mercury fulminate is more often employed in the detonator, and is prepared from mercury, alcohol, and nitric acid.

  • The most tremendous explosives refuse to explode unless some detonator like fulminate of mercury is set off first.