detonator

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For more common parts, like the plastics and metals and wiring inside each detonator, there are also questions about how the years spent in warheads might affect their integrity.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 19, 2023

There's no need, since their coupledom is simply a detonator for the bombs Hill and Barris designed to go off in their families.

From Salon • Feb. 2, 2023

You’d think he was pointing a detonator at Aquaman.

From The Guardian • Oct. 12, 2019

A scientist who lost three fingers when a detonator exploded as he handled it has been compensated by the Ministry of Defence.

From BBC • May 21, 2017

The President saw it too and the matter did not amuse him, for he realized it could be the detonator that would set off the powder keg on which his government was delicately perched.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende