(a.) Driving or bursting out with violence and noise; causing explosion; as, the explosive force of gunpowder.
(n.) An explosive agent; a compound or mixture susceptible of a rapid chemical reaction, as gunpowder, or nitro-glycerine.
(n.) A sound produced by an explosive impulse of the breath; (Phonetics) one of consonants p, b, t, d, k, g, which are sounded with a sort of explosive power of voice. [See Guide to Pronunciation, Ã 155-7, 184.]
Example Sentences:
(1) According to some reports as many as 30 people were killed in the explosion, although that figure could not be independently confirmed.
(2) Recognition of this deficiency in our knowledge spurred a belated explosion of research that began with an exploration of the fine structure of the mesothelium.
(3) Moments later, explosive charges blasted free two tungsten blocks, to shift the balance of the probe so it could fly itself to a prearranged landing spot .
(4) There were soon tales of claimants dying after having had money withdrawn, but the real administrative problem was the explosion of appeals, which very often succeeded because many medical problems were being routinely ignored at the earlier stage.
(5) But late last month, Amisom pushed them out of Afgoye, a strategic stronghold 30km from Mogadishu, where Amisom officials say the militants used to manufacture explosives used in attacks on the capital.
(6) When you have champions of financial rectitude such as the International Monetary Fund and OECD warning of the international risk of an "explosion of social unrest" and arguing for a new fiscal stimulus if growth continues to falter, it's hardly surprising that tensions in the cabinet over next month's spending review are spilling over.
(7) Gunfire and explosions rocked Bangkok following clashes between pro-government "red shirts" and protesters, leading to fears of further violence as Thais head to the polls.
(8) He explained that in Iraq , vehicles loaded with explosive devices only had their hazard warning lights on.” When Fitzsimons applied for a job in Iraq with the security firm Armour Group Security , owned by G4S, he didn’t tell his family.
(9) A month later there were explosions in High Wycombe and London's King's Road.
(10) Progress on treaties underpinning nuclear disarmament – which have too long been stalled – has also recently begun to look more hopeful, with renewed prospects for achieving the entry into force of the comprehensive test ban treaty and for starting negotiations on a treaty to ban the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive purposes.
(11) Technology assessment is becoming increasingly important in the area of critical care due both to the explosion of technology associated with this discipline and to the realization that future demand for these health care resources will undoubtedly exceed the ability to pay.
(12) Morphine was previously found to elicit an explosive excitatory behavior following its injection at a high dose in the rat periaqueductal gray (PAG).
(13) The World Health Organisation has convened an emergency committee to discuss the “explosive” spread of the Zika virus , with one of its scientists estimating there there could be 3m-4m Zika infections in the Americas over the next year.
(14) Certainly the affidavit against Ferdaus paints a compelling picture of a man hellbent on waging jihad in America and eager to take the guns and explosives eventually supplied to him by the undercover FBI agents.
(15) Thus the main population explosion – or to give it its proper name, the population implosion – is still to come.
(16) GMCs during the radiation schedule were associated with explosive diarrhea on seven occasions.
(17) The bigger question to pose is whether these reforms can possibly meet the challenge the NHS faces from an explosion in chronic diseases, such as diabetes .
(18) A massive explosion in a highly secure diplomatic area of Kabul has killed at least 90 people and wounded more than 461, Afghan officials have said.
(19) Unfortunately, this explosion is mild compared with the number of myths, falsehoods and downright lies which have accompanied these ideas.
(20) A car bomb and suspected suicide bomber have killed at least 15 people in two explosions at a restaurant in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, local police said.
Hydroxylamine
Definition:
(n.) A nitrogenous, organic base, NH2.OH, resembling ammonia, and produced by a modified reduction of nitric acid. It is usually obtained as a volatile, unstable solution in water. It acts as a strong reducing agent.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 1-0-methylalduronic-acidmethylesters, obtained by the methanolysis of the polysaccharides, are reduced with boronhydrid to the corresponding methyl glycosides; there are split with acid to the aldoses, which are converted in pyridine with hydroxylamine to the aldoximes and than with acetic anhydride to the aldonitrilacetates, which can be separated by gaschromatography without difficulty.
(2) Both diaminobutyric and diaminopropionic acids were seen in the acid hydrolyzate of the protein treated with hydroxylamine and subjected to rearrangement in the presence of carbodiimide.
(3) Most of the somatogenic binding activity was recovered by hydroxylamine treatment, which removes O-acetyl groups from tyrosine residues but not N-acetyl groups from lysine residues.
(4) The chemistry involved reaction rate constant measurements of MSF hydrolysis and for reactions with phenolic, amine, oxime, hydroxamic acid, phenyl N-hydroxycarbamate, and hydroxylamine compounds and cupric imidazole and bipyridyl complexes.
(5) The data analyses indicate that the hydroxylamine method is a suitable substitute for the microbiological method for potency assays and stability studies of ampicillin formulations.
(6) Metabolites identified include products from side-chain C-hydroxylation (benzyl alcohols and benzaldehydes) and N-hydroxylation (hydroxylamines and nitroso derivatives).
(7) The syntheses of the secondary hydroxylamines of nor1chlorpromazine and nor1promazine via their corresponding primary hydroxylamines and oximes are described.
(8) The microsomal oxidation of 2-aminobenzyl alcohol also resulted in the formation of two reducing agents, one of which was the corresponding hydroxylamine.
(9) Hydroxylamine mutagenesis was used to alter the tar gene that encodes the transmembrane Tar protein required for chemotaxis.
(10) The enzyme displayed a very broad substrate specificity, reducing various N-oxide and sulfoxide compounds as well as chlorate and hydroxylamine.
(11) Antisera to NADPH-cytochrome c reductase markedly decreased hydroxylamine accumulation during incubation but had no effect on the rate of 2-naphthylamine N-oxidation.
(12) The single oxidation of the oxygen binding site can be reversed by reduction with hydroxylamine, and the oxygen binding properties of the protein are simultaneously restored.
(13) After inactivation by 1-D-1,2-anhydro-myo-inositol the label was released by hydroxylamine and identified as scyllo-inositol.
(14) Enzyme inactivated with diethyl pyrocarbonate was re-activated by hydroxylamine.
(15) Hydroxylamine (1 mM) and ethanolamine-O-sulfate (10 mM), well-known inhibitors of cerebral GABA formation and GABA catabolism respectively, inhibited renal tubular GABA formation at 100% and 44% respectively.
(16) The mesophyll material could be made to resemble the bundle-sheath chloroplasts in respect of both phenomena by adding to it 1-(3',4'-dichlorophenyl)-3,3-dimethyl-urea and hydroxylamine, together.
(17) Hydroxylamine removes (reduces) oxidizing equivalents, generated in the water-splitting system by flash excitation.
(18) A nucleotide-peptide linkage involving a phosphoamide bond is unlikely since the complex is resistant to 3.5 M hydroxylamine at pH 4.75.
(19) By hydroxylamine mutagenesis, we have identified a rad1 mutant allele whose encoded protein fails to complex with RAD10.
(20) Among the compounds studied 4 hydroxylamine derivatives were observed to have a mutagenic effect.