detonator

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For more common parts, like the plastics and metals and wiring inside each detonator, there are also questions about how the years spent in warheads might affect their integrity.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 19, 2023

What if these novae were actually the remnants of technological civilizations like ours, which had in fact discovered the dreaded "detonator" referenced by Rutherford?

From Salon • Aug. 12, 2023

You’d think he was pointing a detonator at Aquaman.

From The Guardian • Oct. 12, 2019

A scientist who lost three fingers when a detonator exploded as he handled it has been compensated by the Ministry of Defence.

From BBC • May 21, 2017

Powell unlimbered the detonator, and his eyes searched anxiously across the dusky background where the only light was robot light and it was impossible to tell a projecting boulder from a shadow.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov