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  • SC man drives 80 miles to give explosives to cops

    Oct 16th, 2009 - Boston.com

    UNION, S.C.—Authorities say a South Carolina man's good intentions almost caused an explosive situation. After the man's uncle died, he discovered that his relative had collected potentially explosive materials including grenades...

  • Iran mourns dozens killed in militant attack

    Oct 16th, 2009 - CNN

    Iran mourns dozens killed in militant attackTEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Three days of mourning began in the Iranian province of Sistan-Baluchestan on Monday, after dozens of people were killed in a militant attack a day earlier...

  • Iran bomber struck as guards talked to tribespeople

    Oct 16th, 2009 - Reuters

    TEHRAN (Reuters) - A suicide bomber attacked Iranian Revolutionary Guards on Sunday when senior officers attending a conference went to talk to a group of tribes people making baskets...

  • Revolutionary Guard commanders killed in Iran bomb

    Oct 16th, 2009 - kansascity.com

    A suicide bomber killed at least 20 people Sunday, including five senior commanders of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard, in southeastern Iran, the country's official news agency reported.

  • Bomber in deadly Iraq mosque attack

    Oct 16th, 2009 - Al Jazeera English

    Bomber in deadly Iraq mosque attackMore than 12 people have been killed and 42 hurt by a suicide bomber who opened fire inside a Sunni Muslim mosque before detonating his explosives' vest. Police said the attack on Friday was in Tal Afar...

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Explosives from WikiPedia:

An explosive material is a material that either is chemically or otherwise energetically unstable or produces a sudden expansion of the material usually accompanied by the production of heat and large changes in pressure (and typically also a flash and/or loud noise) upon initiation; this is called the explosion. An explosive charge is a measured quantity of explosive material.

Explosives are classified as low or high explosives according to their rates of burn: low explosives burn rapidly (or deflagrate), while high explosives detonate. While these definitions are distinct, the problem of precisely measuring rapid decomposition makes practical classification of explosives difficult.

The chemical decomposition of an explosive may take years, days, hours, or a fraction of a second. The slower processes of decomposition take place in storage and are of interest only from a stability standpoint. Of more interest are the two rapid forms of decomposition, deflagration and detonation.

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