Concept: explosive in the concept vocabulary

Concept URI http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/3061
Preferred label explosive
Definition A substance, such as trinitrotoluene, or a mixture, such as gunpowder, that is characterized by chemical stability but may be made to undergo rapid chemical change without an outside source of oxygen, whereupon it produces a large quantity of energy generally accompanied by the evolution of hot gases.
Notation
Status Valid
Status Modified 2013-12-05
Accepted Date 2013-12-05
Not Accepted Date
Alternative label
  • räjähdysaine [fi]
  • εκρηκτικό [el]
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