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Record 1 2010-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Fires and Explosions
  • Explosives and Pyrotechnical Materials (Industries)
DEF

Liability to explode.

CONT

This condition of strain in acetylene and its derivatives is a factor of importance in regard of their explosibility.

CONT

The range of explosibility of water-gas-air mixtures is considerably wider than that of coal-gas-air mixtures.

OBS

The distinction between the two terms "explosibility" and "explosiveness" is not easy to make. "Explosibility" seems now to be also used to designate "the quality of being explosive" and has replaced, in that sense, the older term "explosiveness". See the record for "explosiveness".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie analytique
  • Feux et explosions
  • Explosifs et artifices (Industries)
DEF

[...] aptitude à exploser.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Química analítica
  • Fuegos y explosiones
  • Explosivos y fuegos de artificio (Industrias)
CONT

Generalmente, lo que gobierna la explosibilidad de la resina es su estructura química básica.

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Record 2 1995-07-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Fires and Explosions
  • Explosives and Pyrotechnical Materials (Industries)
DEF

"explosiveness": The quality of being explosive; tendency to explode.

CONT

The explosiveness of a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen gases.

CONT

The wire-gauze of the Davy lamp becomes red-hot from the high explosiveness of the gas.

CONT

Sift out the glass, when the powder would resume its natural explosiveness.

DEF

"explosibility": the quality of being explosible: capacity for being exploded.

OBS

As shown by the definition of "explosiblity" above, taken from the Webster, "explosibility" has come to designate the same notion as that designated by "explosiveness". More over, "explosiveness" is not cited in the Webster. We therefore think that "explosibility" has replaced "explosiveness".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie analytique
  • Feux et explosions
  • Explosifs et artifices (Industries)
DEF

"explosivité" : Nature explosive d'une substance.

DEF

"explosibilité" : Qualité de ce qui est explosible.

CONT

L'instabilité, dirait un chimiste, a deux formes : la fragilité et l'explosibilité.

OBS

Le terme "explosivité" est absent des ouvrages généraux récents que nous avons consultés. Il semble que son emploi soit tombé hors d'usage, ce qui a entraîné dans la même foulée, hélas pourrions-nous dire, la disparition de la nuance qui existait auparavant entre "explosivité" et "explosibilité".

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Química analítica
  • Fuegos y explosiones
  • Explosivos y fuegos de artificio (Industrias)
CONT

Propiedades químicas [de los materiales y sustancias que constituyen a los residuos peligrosos]: [...] Oxidación, Explosividad, Degradabilidad.

CONT

Explosividad - Las sustancias explosivas son aquellas que de manera espontánea o por una reacción química pueden desprender gases a una temperatura, presión y velocidad tales que causen daño a los alrededores.

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