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Tertiary explosive: The main, and least sensitive, charge of an explosive or propellant system ^[e]

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Explosives [r]: Explosive agent; a compound or mixture susceptible of a rapid chemical reaction, as gunpowder, or nitroglycerin. ^[e]

HMX (explosive) [r]: "High Melting Explosive" of the nitramine class; known as Octogen or cyclotetramethylenetetranitramine; chemically octahydro-1,3,5,7-tetranitro-1 ,3,5,7-tetrazocine; 9110 meters/sec. detonation velocity; high detonation temperature; early use in nuclear weapons; density 1.89/pressed ^[e]
HBX [r]: Mixtures of TNT, RDX, aluminium powder and waxes to help casting; used in guided missile and torpedo warheads ^[e]
Composition A [r]: A military explosive mixture of RDX granules covered in wax ^[e]
Composition B [r]: An obsolete military explosive mixture of 63% RDX, 36% TNT, 1% wax (typical), used as fillers in mines, bombs and shells; early nuclear weapons including B53 high-yield bomb ^[e]
Ammonium nitrate-fuel oil [r]: Add brief definition or description
Trinitrotoluene (TNT) [r]: Trinitrotoluene, once the most common military explosive but now no longer commercially produced in the U.S. and other countries; still used as the reference for yield of nuclear weapons and other explosives (e.g., TNT has a brisance of 1.0 while the brisance of the plastic explosive, Composition C-4, is 1.34) ^[e]
Urea nitrate [r]: An explosive that can be made from some preparations of urea fertilizer, more powerful than ammonium nitrate-fuel oil, and which was used in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; its conversion requires access to concentrated nitric acid ^[e]

Secondary explosive [r]: Not always present but required in some applications, an explosive that is less sensitive than the primary explosive in the detonator, and used to amplify an initiating shock wave into the insensitive tertiary explosive ^[e]
Primary explosive [r]: An explosive that takes relatively little energy to detonate, although recent versions require a specialized application of energy; used to start the explosion sequence in a weapon or demolitions charge, transferring energy to the optional secondary explosive or directly to the tertiary explosive ^[e]