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tertiary explosive

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.40 in modern English

Syllables
ter-tiary -ex-plo-sive
IPA
32
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A type of explosive that is highly insensitive to shock and that cannot be reliably detonated by practical quantities of primary explosive.

Inflected Forms

tertiary explosives (plural)

Phrases

primary explosive secondary explosive

Frequently Paired Words

primary explosive secondary explosive

Questions

What does tertiary explosive mean?
A type of explosive that is highly insensitive to shock and that cannot be reliably detonated by practical quantities of primary explosive.

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