explosive mixture
collocation in Englishmeaningsofexplosiveandmixture
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explosive
adjective
uk/ɪkˈspləʊ.sɪv/us/ɪkˈsploʊ.sɪv/
exploding or able to ...
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mixture
noun
uk/ˈmɪks.tʃər/us/ˈmɪks.tʃɚ/
a substance made from a combination of different substances, or any combination of ...
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(Definition ofexplosiveandmixturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In 1977, a waste shaft filled with anexplosivemixtureof waste and chemicals exploded, spraying radioactive material into the surrounding environment.
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If one adds to that slightlyexplosivemixturean incompetent managing agent, one will have something quite difficult to handle.
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There must be anexplosivemixtureand there must be a means of ignition.
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The explosion was due to the ignition of anexplosivemixtureof petroleum vapour and air in the engine room.
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These characteristics still exist together in anexplosivemixture.
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As we all agree, a potent,explosivemixturewill be left.
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Unsold beef, the lack of consumer confidence and escalating costs are a highlyexplosivemixturewhich could decimate beef-farming and agricultural policy.
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Since then more slogans have been added, such as subsidiarity, decentralization and renationalization, which together with this slogan could produce a highlyexplosivemixture.
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The issue is much more complex than that: our current enemy is thatexplosivemixtureof authoritarian regimes and dictatorships based on religious fanaticism.
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First, theexplosivemixturemust be there, and, secondly, the means of igniting it must be there.
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There was also the obvious possibility of anexplosivemixturebeing created at some point.
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When that bitterness is added to the frustration and the poverty of unemployment it may become anexplosivemixture, leading to crime and riots.
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The claimed and actual objectives are a dangerous andexplosivemixture.
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Persistence of youth unemployment or youth under-employment is heating up anexplosivemixturethat may cause some nasty explosions in some of our big cities.
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Together, they seem to have produced anexplosivemixture.
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I think this story must have been derived from the fact that the housemaid, while dusting the room, found two small paper vessels containing an inflammable, but notexplosivemixture.
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We have had to get ammunition in enormous quantities, working with a newexplosivemixture, training gauge-makers and other operatives, building factories, and making machinery all at the same time.
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I should add that there is a safety requirement that this method must be carried out in an inert gas system to ensure that there is noexplosivemixturepresent.
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When you contemplate thisexplosivemixtureof internal and external forces, the wonder is not that there are 2 million unemployed but that we do not see twice that number.
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These riveted tanks leaked, which resulted in anexplosivemixture.
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