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

The detonator - often used as an emergency warning device to warn maintenance workers of approaching trains - somehow ended up at a store in Morecambe, Lancashire.

From BBC • Jan. 28, 2022

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

There was a noise, I suppose, which must’ve been the detonator, so I glanced behind me and watched Lemon step from the shade into bright sunlight.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien