Explosive

Explosive

Explosive (/ɪkˈsploʊsɪv/) is a term used to describe a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion if released suddenly, usually accompanied by the production of light, heat, sound, and pressure.

Etymology

The term "explosive" comes from the Latin explodere, meaning "to drive out by clapping". It was first used in the context of chemical reactions in the 17th century.

Related Terms

• Detonation: A type of combustion involving a supersonic exothermic front accelerating through a medium that eventually drives a shock front propagating directly in front of it.
• Deflagration: Subsonic combustion propagating through heat transfer; hot burning material heats the next layer of cold material and ignites it.
• Blast wave: A pressure wave produced by an explosion.
• Shock wave: A type of propagating disturbance in a fluid, gas, or plasma medium.
• Pyrotechnics: The science of using materials capable of undergoing self-contained and self-sustained exothermic chemical reactions for the production of heat, light, gas, smoke and/or sound.

See Also

• List of explosives
• Explosive material
• Explosive detection
• Explosive device

External links

• Medical encyclopedia article on Explosive
• Wikipedia's article - Explosive

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