These shells are fused with what are called detonating fuses that burst when the shell touches anything.    From Wordnik.com.  ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference

Nevertheless he had not given up the idea of detonating this cosmic power plant so that its energy eruption would attract Rhodan's attention.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unleashed Powers]

In "detonating" their individuality in a moment of becoming-revolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Repetition, Representation and Revolution: Deleuze and Blake's _America_] Reference

He became an expert in detonating bombs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iraq glimpses for April 2007] Reference

Sound Off: Is 'detonating' squirrels the best way to get rid of them?.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

So when the hammer falls upon a detonating compound.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Making of Arguments] Reference

Like detonating nuclear bombs and trying to figure their blast reaction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet] Reference

The ignition of the detonating mixture was effected by an electric spark.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 417, December 29, 1883] Reference

At the opening, a salute of ten detonating bombs and a large rocket announce the event.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition] Reference

The detonating cap is then ignited by the passage of the electric current and the shot fired.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896] Reference

The insurgents made their get-away, detonating bombs and taking some of their dead with them -- John.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 21, 2006] Reference

An example of this helpful influence is the standardization of detonating caps and electric detonators.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171] Reference

But detonating a controlled avalanche makes sense only if it will run out far from buildings and people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taming The White Dragon] Reference

That he was very probably familiar with the application of such chemical detonating agents has already been suggested.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

While he did this the detonating wire was run out to its length and the raiders pressed back against the base of the wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deathworld] Reference

As security guards approached, al-Balawi "was observed reaching under his clothing and then detonating an explosive device.".    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. government charges Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud in CIA attack] Reference

The grenades could be carried in a pouch or in the pocket, and were harmless as long as the detonating device was not disturbed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ned, Bob and Jerry on the Firing Line The Motor Boys Fighting for Uncle Sam] Reference

The longer I lie here, listening to my still functioning electronic innards, the more afraid I grow of detonating after all this time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grapple] Reference

The gases were collected after detonating 10 grms. of each in a closed strong steel cylinder, having an internal diameter of 5 inches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise] Reference

Berthelot and Vielle have recently been studying the influence of the density of detonating gaseous mixtures upon the pressure developed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884.] Reference