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What does detonative mean?

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  1. (of an explosive, or ordnance) That is liable to detonate spontaneously
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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.
Of all the assembling factors that eventually send debris flows rumbling down the canyons, none is more detonative than the waterproof soil.
I offer James's recourse to metaphors of the mystical as an additional, radical instance of the detonative effect of James's philosophical discourse.
But as a forward fabled for his pyrotechnic powers prepares for the domestic campaign's climax, some detonative displays seem certain.

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