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sympathetic detonation

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sympathetic detonation [‚sim·pə′thed·ik ‚det·ən′ā·shən]
(engineering)
Explosion caused by the transmission of a detonation wave through any medium from another explosion.


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This is the kind of innovative technology that will help protect our citizens against terrorism, our troops from improvised explosive devices (IED's) in Iraq and Afghanistan, secure military ordinance from sympathetic detonation and play a vital near-future role in the protection of governmental commercial and residential property.
This novel packaging system is designed to prevent mass detonation in ammunition storage and transport by eliminating sympathetic detonation, which occurs when one detonating weapon initiates a chain reaction.
This novel packaging system is designed to prevent mass detonation in ammunition storage and transport by the elimination of sympathetic detonation (when one detonating weapon initiates the next, and so on, in a chain reaction).
 
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