brisance

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It isn't exactly strength or hardness or toughness or resilience or brisance -- maybe a combination of all five.

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  1. noun The shattering effect of the sudden release of energy in an explosion.

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  • On a final note, I think I can say that brisance is not as good as the patent would have you believe. —  The Explosives and Weapons Forum: medina?
  • It isn't exactly strength or hardness or toughness or resilience or brisance -- maybe a combination of all five. —  The Galaxy Primes
  • "Consistent with the brisance," Cooper said. —  The Coffin Dancer
  • MEDINA’s detonation speed is only 8700m/s versus HMX which is above 9000 m/s Posts: 474 | From: california | Registered: May 2001 IP: Logged Microtek Researcher Member # 395 Member Rated posted June 04, 2002 08:30 AM In PATR 2700 vol 2, HMX is said to have a relative brisance ( to TNT ) of 125-155 in the sand crush test, a VOD of 9124 at 1.84 g/cc and a Trautzl test of 159-165 relative to TNT. —  The Explosives and Weapons Forum: medina?
 

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  1. French, from brisant, present participle of briser, to break, from Old French brisier, from Vulgar Latin *brisiāre, perhaps of Celtic origin.
 

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