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What is the adjective for detonation?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs detonate and detonize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

detonatable
  1. (of an explosive, or ordnance) That can be detonated or is liable to detonate; detonable.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Say, you wouldn't happen to know if Butch still sells diesel fuel in those fifty-five-gallon drums with the detonatable spigots, now would ya?”
detonable
  1. (of an explosive, or ordnance) That can be (or is liable to) detonate, detonatable.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The improvised explosive device packed with around 800-1,000 kgs of detonable material was planted in a water tank, said the authorities.”
      “According to sources, another lethal load of detonable material was found stuffed inside a taxi parked nearby.”
      “Officials also said that joint forces managed to free 14 civilians being held by the smugglers and confiscated weapons, explosives and detonable vests during the operation.”
detonative
  1. (of an explosive, or ordnance) That is liable to detonate spontaneously
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The tube is then subjected to a detonative shock from a high explosive donor charge.”
      “Suggestion was made that the energy being produced during detonative combustion can be utilized for useful work, e.g. rock mining in a quarry.”
      “I offer James's recourse to metaphors of the mystical as an additional, radical instance of the detonative effect of James's philosophical discourse.”
detonated
detonating
detonized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of detonize
detonizing
  1. present participle of detonize
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