NOUN
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a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time
this cartridge has a powder charge of 50 grains
How To Use explosive charge In A Sentence
- In addition, if things get really bad, an emergency button under a safety cover will fire explosive charges, which blow out the windscreen to provide an emergency exit.
- They rammed an explosive charge home and detonated it by remote control.
- So the first order of business at the Trial of Barack Obama was to "delineate" (I think he just meant "delete") the most explosive charges -- treason and sedition -- from the indictment. News & Politics
- What they were successful in doing was setting off enough explosive charges to demolish the entire cavern.
- The explosive charges carried by the suicide bombers were packed with ball bearings and pieces of metal to maximise death and injury.
- ‘You drop a tank of fuel and a small explosive charge to burst it apart,’ he explained.
- Officials detonated three sets of explosive charges on board, and the 2,500-ton vessel slowly sank below the surface.
- The rebel soldiers placed explosive charges around the building during the 22-hour revolt.
- To fire or explode ( a weapon or an explosive charge ).
- At one spot the Federals succeeded in undermining the Confederate works in preparation to laying an explosive charge.