Explosions occur when gases in a confined space expand with a pressure and velocity that cause stresses greater than the confining structure can withstand. The gas expansion can be caused by rapid generation of gaseous molecules from a solid or...

Plosive with oral, medial release, e.g. the initial [th] (as opposed to the final unreleased in tat . ( also articulatory phonetics, aspiration)...

Compounds that are unstable and break down with the sudden release of large amounts of...

Explosives are substances that produce violent chemical or nuclear reactions. These reactions generate large amounts of heat and gas in a fraction of a second. Shock waves produced by rapidly expanded gases are responsible for much of the destruction...

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...

Spanish police acting on what appears to have been a hoax evacuated Ibiza airport Saturday after a telephone bomb threat and safely destroyed a suspicious bag in a controlled explosion, the Interior Ministry said.After the warning, police evacuated and searched the airport, found two suspicious...

With a federal indictment in place, state charges will be dismissed against two Egyptian-born students who were stopped last month with what authorities said were pipe bombs, a prosecutor said Tuesday."I plan to dismiss the charges in favor of federal prosecution," said Scarlett Wilson, state...

A 27-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a makeshift bomb that was found outside a clinic where abortions are performed, authorities said Friday.Paul Ross Evans has been charged with use of weapons of mass destruction, manufacture of explosive material and violating freedom of...

U.S. and Iraqi troops found a huge stash of weapons in a raid on the home of a Sunni lawmaker and detained at least a dozen men for questioning, officials said Sunday.Brig. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi, spokesman for the Baghdad security plan, said the raid targeted...