Explosive
Explosive adjective - Extreme in degree, power, or effect.
Percussion and explosive are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Percussion" instead an adjective "Explosive".
Percussion
Percussion noun - The act of exploding a percussion cap.
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Explosive and percussion are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Explosive" instead an adjective "Percussion".
Nearby Words: percussive, percussionist
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- Another hair-trigger explosive is fulminate of mercury, which is used in blasting caps in order to set off other explosives and percussion caps for muskets in the mid 1800s.
Source: Hair-Trigger Explosive
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