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

There's no need, since their coupledom is simply a detonator for the bombs Hill and Barris designed to go off in their families.

From Salon • Feb. 2, 2023

To lessen the odds of electrical failures, each detonator was fitted with not just one but two firing cables, bringing the total to 64.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2020

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

From The Guardian • Oct. 12, 2019

They hadn’t taken it yet, and that was the detonator.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan