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- noun The
explosive pentaerythritol tetranitrate
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Examples
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Reaching into his dive satchel, he pulled out the coils of detonation cord, a thin, malleable explosive of pentrite wrapped within a soft, pliable textile that appeared to be a long strand of nylon rope.
The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010
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Reaching into his dive satchel, he pulled out the coils of detonation cord, a thin, malleable explosive of pentrite wrapped within a soft, pliable textile that appeared to be a long strand of nylon rope.
The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010
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Reaching into his dive satchel, he pulled out the coils of detonation cord, a thin, malleable explosive of pentrite wrapped within a soft, pliable textile that appeared to be a long strand of nylon rope.
The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010
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He has pleaded guilty to trying to blow up the Northwest Airlines plane by injecting chemicals into a package of pentrite explosive concealed in his underwear and is due to be sentenced Thursday.
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He has pleaded guilty to trying to blow up the Northwest Airlines plane by injecting chemicals into a package of pentrite explosive concealed in his underwear and is due to be sentenced Thursday.
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He has pleaded guilty to trying to blow up the Northwest Airlines plane by injecting chemicals into a package of pentrite explosive concealed in his underwear and is due to be sentenced Thursday.
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He has pleaded guilty to trying to blow up the Northwest Airlines plane by injecting chemicals into a package of pentrite explosive concealed in his underwear and is due to be sentenced Thursday.
The Seattle Times 2012
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My supplier of pentrite stupidly got himself pinched in Albania with two kilos.
Anarchist news dot org - Comments WeWillWin Anarchy 2010
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The explosives stashed in the house, a garage and a car included 1,330 kilogrammes of ammonium nitrate, 75 kilogrammes of potassium nitrate and 40 litres of sulphuric acid, pentrite, aluminium powder and nitromethane.
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U.S. officials say a Nigerian man, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, tried to destroy a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day by injecting chemicals into a package of pentrite explosive concealed in his underwear.
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