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High explosive   /haɪ ɪksplˈoʊsɪv/   Listen
High explosive

noun
1.
A powerful chemical explosive that produces gas at a very high rate.  Antonym: low explosive.





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... oblongs, each described with a letter and number. These were for the guiding of the guns — because, for each tiny square on the German side of the lines, there was a battery or a couple of batteries behind the French front, whose business was solely to sweep that square with high explosive shells, gas shells and shrapnel, when the battle ...
— The Boy Allies with Haig in Flanders • Clair W. Hayes


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