detonating cord

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detonating cord

noun detonating cords · detonation cord

An explosive cord, typically used as a fuse/primer to detonate explosive charges, or as a cutting agent to cut patterns explosively. The explosive cord is a small flexible plastic tube filled with explosive in a flexible binder, typically pentaerythritol tetranitrate (“PETN”) (pentrite explosives).
Similar: cordeau, detcord, det cord, det. cord, detacord, sun cord, primer cord, primacord

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@misc{detonating_cord_2026,
  title = {detonating cord},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/detonating%20cord},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}