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Definition of Detonates
1. detonate [v] - See also: detonate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Detonates
Literary usage of Detonates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1866)
"to light ; detonates violently above 100° ; and when mixed in alcoholic solution
with alkalis, gives off nitrogen and yields ..."