C-4 (explosive), the Glossary
C-4 or Composition C-4 is a common variety of the plastic explosive family known as Composition C, which uses RDX as its explosive agent.[1]
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103 relations: Activated carbon, Adsorption, Al-Qaeda, Analytical Chemistry (journal), ANFO, Antioxidant, BAE Systems, Binder (material), Birefringence, Bomb, BoPET, British Pharmacopoeia, Carbon black, Central nervous system, Chemical decomposition, Claymore mine, Composition B, Composition C, Deflagration, Demolition, Detonating cord, Detonation, Detonation velocity, Detonator, Diazepam, Dioctyl adipate, Dioctyl sebacate, DMDNB, Domestic terrorism, Explosive, Explosive detection, Forensic science, Fuel, Fuse (explosives), Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry, GlobalSecurity.org, Haloperidol, Hezbollah Al-Hejaz, Hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene, Hygroscopy, I-beam, Improvised explosive device, Infrared spectroscopy, Insensitive munition, Iraqi insurgency (2003–2011), Isotropy, Khobar Towers bombing, Lead(II) azide, Lead(II) chromate, List of designated terrorist groups, ... Expand index (53 more) »
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Activated carbon
Activated carbon, also called activated charcoal, is a form of carbon commonly used to filter contaminants from water and air, among many other uses.
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Adsorption
Adsorption is the adhesion of atoms, ions or molecules from a gas, liquid or dissolved solid to a surface.
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Al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by Sunni Jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim world under a supra-national Islamic caliphate.
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Analytical Chemistry (journal)
Analytical Chemistry is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal published since 1929 by the American Chemical Society.
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ANFO
ANFO (or AN/FO, for ammonium nitrate/fuel oil) is a widely used bulk industrial high explosive.
Antioxidant
Antioxidants are compounds that inhibit oxidation (usually occurring as autoxidation), a chemical reaction that can produce free radicals.
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BAE Systems
BAE Systems plc is a British multinational aerospace, defence and information security company, based in London, England.
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Binder (material)
A binder or binding agent is any material or substance that holds or draws other materials together to form a cohesive whole mechanically, chemically, by adhesion or cohesion.
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Birefringence
Birefringence is the optical property of a material having a refractive index that depends on the polarization and propagation direction of light.
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Bomb
A bomb is an explosive weapon that uses the exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide an extremely sudden and violent release of energy.
BoPET
BoPET (biaxially oriented polyethylene terephthalate) is a polyester film made from stretched polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and is used for its high tensile strength, chemical stability, dimensional stability, transparency, reflectivity when metallized, gas and moisture barrier properties, and electrical insulation.
British Pharmacopoeia
The British Pharmacopoeia (BP) is the national pharmacopoeia of the United Kingdom.
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Carbon black
Carbon black (with subtypes acetylene black, channel black, furnace black, lamp black and thermal black) is a material produced by the incomplete combustion of coal tar, vegetable matter, or petroleum products, including fuel oil, fluid catalytic cracking tar, and ethylene cracking in a limited supply of air.
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Central nervous system
The central nervous system (CNS) is the part of the nervous system consisting primarily of the brain and spinal cord.
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Chemical decomposition
Chemical decomposition, or chemical breakdown, is the process or effect of simplifying a single chemical entity (normal molecule, reaction intermediate, etc.) into two or more fragments.
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Claymore mine
The Claymore mine is a directional anti-personnel mine developed for the United States Armed Forces.
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Composition B
Composition B (Comp B), also known as Hexotol and Hexolite (among others), is a high explosive consisting of castable mixtures of RDX and TNT. C-4 (explosive) and Composition B are explosives.
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Composition C
The Composition C family is a family of related US-specified plastic explosives consisting primarily of RDX. C-4 (explosive) and Composition C are explosives.
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Deflagration
Deflagration (Lat: de + flagrare, 'to burn down') is subsonic combustion in which a pre-mixed flame propagates through an explosive or a mixture of fuel and oxidizer. C-4 (explosive) and Deflagration are explosives.
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Demolition
Demolition (also known as razing, cartage, and wrecking) is the science and engineering in safely and efficiently tearing down buildings and other artificial structures.
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Detonating cord
Detonating cord (also called detonation cord, detacord, detcord, or primer cord) is a thin, flexible plastic tube usually filled with pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN, pentrite). C-4 (explosive) and Detonating cord are explosives.
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Detonation
Detonation is a type of combustion involving a supersonic exothermic front accelerating through a medium that eventually drives a shock front propagating directly in front of it.
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Detonation velocity
Explosive velocity, also known as detonation velocity or velocity of detonation (VoD), is the velocity at which the shock wave front travels through a detonated explosive.
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Detonator
A detonator, sometimes called a blasting cap in the US, is a small sensitive device used to provoke a larger, more powerful but relatively insensitive secondary explosive of an explosive device used in commercial mining, excavation, demolition, etc. C-4 (explosive) and detonator are explosives.
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Diazepam
Diazepam, sold under the brand name Valium among others, is a medicine of the benzodiazepine family that acts as an anxiolytic.
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Dioctyl adipate
Dioctyl adipate (DOA) is an organic compound with the formula (CH2CH2CO2C8H17)2.
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Dioctyl sebacate
Dioctyl sebacate (also di(2-ethylhexyl) sebacate, commonly abbreviated as DOS, DEHS, and BEHS) is an organic compound which is the diester of sebacic acid and 2-ethylhexanol.
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DMDNB
DMDNB, or also DMNB, chemically 2,3-dimethyl-2,3-dinitrobutane, is a volatile organic compound used as a detection taggant for explosives, mostly in the United States where it is virtually the only such taggant in use.
Domestic terrorism
Domestic terrorism or homegrown terrorism is a form of terrorism in which victims "within a country are targeted by a perpetrator with the same citizenship" as the victims.
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Explosive
An explosive (or explosive material) is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion if released suddenly, usually accompanied by the production of light, heat, sound, and pressure. C-4 (explosive) and explosive are explosives.
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Explosive detection
Explosive detection is a non-destructive inspection process to determine whether a container contains explosive material. C-4 (explosive) and explosive detection are explosives.
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Forensic science
Forensic science, also known as criminalistics, is the application of science principles and methods to support legal decision-making in matters of criminal and civil law.
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Fuel
A fuel is any material that can be made to react with other substances so that it releases energy as thermal energy or to be used for work.
Fuse (explosives)
In an explosive, pyrotechnic device, or military munition, a fuse (or fuze) is the part of the device that initiates function.
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Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry
Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) is an analytical method that combines the features of gas-chromatography and mass spectrometry to identify different substances within a test sample.
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GlobalSecurity.org
GlobalSecurity.org is an American independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that serves as a think tank, and research and consultancy group.
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Haloperidol
Haloperidol, sold under the brand name Haldol among others, is a typical antipsychotic medication.
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Hezbollah Al-Hejaz
Hezbollah Al-Hejaz (حزب الله الحجاز; literally Party of God in the Hejaz), or Hizbollah in the Hijaz, is a militant Shia organization operating in Saudi Arabia.
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Hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene
Hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene (HTPB) is an oligomer of butadiene terminated at each end with a hydroxyl functional group.
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Hygroscopy
Hygroscopy is the phenomenon of attracting and holding water molecules via either absorption or adsorption from the surrounding environment, which is usually at normal or room temperature.
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I-beam
An I-beam is any of various structural members with an or -shaped cross-section.
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Improvised explosive device
An improvised explosive device (IED) is a bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action. C-4 (explosive) and improvised explosive device are explosives.
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Infrared spectroscopy
Infrared spectroscopy (IR spectroscopy or vibrational spectroscopy) is the measurement of the interaction of infrared radiation with matter by absorption, emission, or reflection.
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Insensitive munition
Insensitive munitions are munitions that are designed to withstand stimuli representative of severe but credible accidents.
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Iraqi insurgency (2003–2011)
An Iraqi insurgency began shortly after the 2003 American invasion deposed longtime leader Saddam Hussein.
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Isotropy
In physics and geometry, isotropy is uniformity in all orientations.
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Khobar Towers bombing
The Khobar Towers bombing was a terrorist attack on part of a housing complex in the city of Khobar, Saudi Arabia, near the national oil company (Saudi Aramco) headquarters of Dhahran and nearby King Abdulaziz Air Base on 25 June 1996.
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Lead(II) azide
Lead(II) azide is an inorganic compound.
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Lead(II) chromate
Lead(II) chromate is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula.
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List of designated terrorist groups
Several national governments and two international organizations have created lists of organizations that they designate as terrorist.
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Lithium soap
Lithium soap is a soap consisting of a lithium salt of a fatty acid.
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Lithium stearate
Lithium stearate is a chemical compound with the formula LiO2C(CH2)16CH3.
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Microwave
Microwave is a form of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths shorter than other radio waves (as originally discovered) but longer than infrared waves.
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Mine-clearing line charge
A mine-clearing line charge (abbreviated MCLC or MICLIC; pronounced or "mick-lick") is a device used to create a breach in minefields under combat conditions.
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Mineral oil
Mineral oil is any of various colorless, odorless, light mixtures of higher alkanes from a mineral source, particularly a distillate of petroleum, as distinct from usually edible vegetable oils.
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Modelling clay
Modelling clay or modelling compound is any of a group of malleable substances used in building and sculpting.
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Motor oil
Motor oil, engine oil, or engine lubricant is any one of various substances used for the lubrication of internal combustion engines.
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Nitroamine
In organic and inorganic chemistry, nitroamines or nitramides are chemical compounds with the general chemical structure.
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Orders of magnitude (mass)
To help compare different orders of magnitude, the following lists describe various mass levels between 10−67 kg and 1052 kg.
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Oxocarbon
In chemistry, an oxocarbon or oxide of carbon is a chemical compound consisting only of carbon and oxygen.
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Pentaerythritol tetranitrate
Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), also known as PENT, pentyl, PENTA (ПЕНТА, primarily in Russian), TEN (tetraeritrit nitrate), corpent, or penthrite (or, rarely and primarily in German, as nitropenta), is an explosive material.
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Phillips Petroleum Company
Phillips Petroleum Company was an American oil company incorporated in 1917 that expanded into petroleum refining, marketing and transportation, natural gas gathering and the chemicals sectors.
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Plastic explosive
Plastic explosive is a soft and hand-moldable solid form of explosive material. C-4 (explosive) and Plastic explosive are British inventions and explosives.
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Plasticity (physics)
In physics and materials science, plasticity (also known as plastic deformation) is the ability of a solid material to undergo permanent deformation, a non-reversible change of shape in response to applied forces.
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Plasticizer
A plasticizer (UK: plasticiser) is a substance that is added to a material to make it softer and more flexible, to increase its plasticity, to decrease its viscosity, and/or to decrease friction during its handling in manufacture.
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Polarized light microscopy
Polarized light microscopy can mean any of a number of optical microscopy techniques involving polarized light.
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Polyisobutene
Polyisobutene (polyisobutylene) is a class of organic polymers prepared by polymerization of isobutene.
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Polymer-bonded explosive
Polymer-bonded explosives, also called PBX or plastic-bonded explosives, are explosive materials in which explosive powder is bound together in a matrix using small quantities (typically 5–10% by weight) of a synthetic polymer. C-4 (explosive) and polymer-bonded explosive are explosives.
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Pressure-sensitive tape
Pressure-sensitive tape or pressure-sensitive adhesive tape (PSA tape) is an adhesive tape that will stick with application of pressure, without the need for a solvent (such as water) or heat for activation.
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RDX
RDX (abbreviation of "Research Department eXplosive" or Royal Demolition eXplosive) or hexogen, among other names, is an organic compound with the formula (CH2N2O2)3.
Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which started in 2014.
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Satchel charge
A satchel charge is a demolition device, primarily intended for combat, whose primary components are a charge of dynamite or a more potent explosive such as C-4 plastic explosive, a carrying device functionally similar to a satchel or messenger bag, and a triggering mechanism; the term covers both improvised and formally designed devices.
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Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia and the Middle East.
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Scanning electron microscope
A scanning electron microscope (SEM) is a type of electron microscope that produces images of a sample by scanning the surface with a focused beam of electrons.
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Secondary ion mass spectrometry
Secondary-ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) is a technique used to analyze the composition of solid surfaces and thin films by sputtering the surface of the specimen with a focused primary ion beam and collecting and analyzing ejected secondary ions.
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Semtex
Semtex is a general-purpose plastic explosive containing RDX and PETN. C-4 (explosive) and Semtex are explosives.
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Sensitivity (explosives)
In explosives engineering, sensitivity refers to the degree to which an explosive can be initiated by impact, heat, or friction. C-4 (explosive) and sensitivity (explosives) are explosives.
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Shaped charge
A shaped charge is an explosive charge shaped to focus the effect of the explosive's energy. C-4 (explosive) and shaped charge are explosives.
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Shock sensitivity
Shock sensitivity is a comparative measure of the sensitivity to sudden compression (by impact or blast) of an explosive chemical compound. C-4 (explosive) and Shock sensitivity are explosives.
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Shock wave
In physics, a shock wave (also spelled shockwave), or shock, is a type of propagating disturbance that moves faster than the local speed of sound in the medium.
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Solid-phase extraction (SPE) is a solid-liquid extractive technique, by which compounds that are dissolved or suspended in a liquid mixture are separated, isolated or purified, from other compounds in this mixture, according to their physical and chemical properties.
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Solvent
A solvent (from the Latin solvō, "loosen, untie, solve") is a substance that dissolves a solute, resulting in a solution.
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State terrorism
State terrorism refers to acts of terrorism which a state conducts against another state or against its own citizens.
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Substance intoxication
Substance intoxication is a transient condition of altered consciousness and behavior associated with recent use of a substance.
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Sulfuric acid
Sulfuric acid (American spelling and the preferred IUPAC name) or sulphuric acid (Commonwealth spelling), known in antiquity as oil of vitriol, is a mineral acid composed of the elements sulfur, oxygen, and hydrogen, with the molecular formula.
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Sympathetic detonation
A sympathetic detonation (SD, or SYDET), also called flash over or secondary/secondaries (explosion), is a detonation, usually unintended, of an explosive charge by a nearby explosion.
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Synthetic rubber
A synthetic rubber is an artificial elastomer.
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Taggant
A taggant is any chemical or physical marker added to materials to allow various forms of testing or detection.
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TATB
TATB, triaminotrinitrobenzene or 2,4,6-triamino-1,3,5-trinitrobenzene is an aromatic explosive, based on the basic six-carbon benzene ring structure with three nitro functional groups (NO2) and three amine (NH2) groups attached, alternating around the ring.
Terrorism
Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims.
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Tetryl
2,4,6-Trinitrophenylmethylnitramine or tetryl (C7H5N5O8) is an explosive compound used to make detonators and explosive booster charges.
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The Anarchist Cookbook
The Anarchist Cookbook, first published in January 1971, is a book containing instructions for the manufacture of explosives, rudimentary telecommunications phreaking devices, and related weapons, as well as instructions for the home manufacture of illicit drugs, including LSD.
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Thin-layer chromatography
Thin-layer chromatography (TLC) is a chromatography technique that separates components in non-volatile mixtures.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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United States Armed Forces
The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States.
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United States Department of the Army
The United States Department of the Army (DA) is one of the three military departments within the Department of Defense of the U.S. The Department of the Army is the federal government agency within which the United States Army (U.S.) is organized, and it is led by the secretary of the Army, who has statutory authority under 10 United States Code § 7013 to conduct its affairs and to prescribe regulations for its government, subject to the limits of the law, and the directions of the secretary of defense and the president.
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Use forms of explosives
Explosive materials are produced in numerous physical forms for their use in mining, engineering, or military applications.
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USS Cole bombing
The USS Cole bombing was a suicide attack by al-Qaeda against, a guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy, on 12 October 2000, while she was being refueled in Yemen's Aden harbor.
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
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War on terror
The war on terror, officially the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), is a global counterterrorist military campaign initiated by the United States following the September 11 attacks and is the most recent global conflict spanning multiple wars.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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X-ray crystallography
X-ray crystallography is the experimental science of determining the atomic and molecular structure of a crystal, in which the crystalline structure causes a beam of incident X-rays to diffract in specific directions.
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X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) is a surface-sensitive quantitative spectroscopic technique that measures the very topmost 200 atoms, 0.01 um, 10 nm of any surface.
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See also
Weapons and ammunition introduced in 1956
- AR-15–style rifle
- C-4 (explosive)
- IZh-56
- M56 submachine gun
- Remington Model 58
- Smith & Wesson Model 19
- Whitney Wolverine
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-4_(explosive)
Also known as C-4 (plastic explosive), C-4 bomb, C-4 explosive, C-4 plastic explosive, C4 (explosive), C4 charge, C4 explosive, C4 explosives, C4 plastic explosive, Composition 4, Composition C-4, Composition C4, Composition-4, PE-4, PE4.
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