While those are specifically used to trigger larger explosions, squibs are generally (but not always) the main explosive element.

Rather, the sand would have replaced the metal shot, with cordite being the explosive element.

It is an intense, explosive but light element that you find as you spoon up the soup.

Loosely organized, distrustful of almost everyone, the students are perhaps the least understood and most explosive element of society.

He isn't informed that it also includes a explosive element in case of emergency that can be triggered by the Americans if necessary.

It has an explosive element attached to it and explodes after a few seconds.

Its explosive element was designed to produce a stunning shock wave and a deafening concussion.

He is now dealing with a crisis that involves some of the most visible and explosive elements of the city's criminal-justice system.

There were explosive elements in all this which could well wreak havoc.

That is plutonium, the explosive element of an atomic bomb.