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- noun The
explosive RDX
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Examples
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The devices - believed to have been made with the powerful explosive, hexogen, which is more commonly known as RDX - were filled with chipped iron rods and screws for shrapnel.
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Initial tests found the sacks contained the explosive hexogen, which had been used in the other bombings.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Initial tests found the sacks contained the explosive hexogen, which had been used in the other bombings.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Initial tests found the sacks contained the explosive hexogen, which had been used in the other bombings.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Initial tests found the sacks contained the explosive hexogen, which had been used in the other bombings.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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They have also been able to trace the origins of the explosives, more than 1,000 kilograms of TNT, C4 and hexogen.
Hezbollah was behind Hariri murder.... GayandRight 2009
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After hinting for days that the tragedy was caused by everything from a thunderstorm to "a breach of civil aviation aircraft operation regulations," the FSB, Russia's top intelligence agency, said that traces of the explosive hexogen had been found at one of the crash sites and that authorities were gathering information on a Chechen woman who had boarded the Siberian Airlines flight.
The Verdict: Terror 2007
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By early September 1944, supplies of methanol—the main constituent of hexogen, an extremely powerful explosive—had dropped drastically, and so had nitric acid and synthetic rubber production.
Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006
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By early September 1944, supplies of methanol—the main constituent of hexogen, an extremely powerful explosive—had dropped drastically, and so had nitric acid and synthetic rubber production.
Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006
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As he spoke, our group entered another building, where women wearing surgical masks stood at a table removing hexogen-a military-grade explosive-from various munitions and placing it into bags.
The Audacity of Hope Obama, Barack 2006
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