Definition of Dynamite

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Dynamite

An explosive substance consisting of nitroglycerin absorbed by some inert, porous solid, as infusorial earth, sawdust, etc. It is safer than nitroglycerin, being less liable to explosion from moderate shocks, or from spontaneous decomposition.

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Dynamite Quotations

You know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it'll turn around and bite you and kill you so fast it's not even funny.
Steve Irwin

I loved it, it's such fun. I like that people are seeing it and then talking about it. Like when I took my son and his friends to see Napoleon Dynamite last year, we spent the next six weeks trying to explain it.
Robert Downey, Jr.

Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture - none of it under the right people.
James Agee

A guy like Benoit, he's really good and a lot like Dynamite. Dynamite, just because he was the original, was the best. But, you know, Benoit now is by far better. Dynamite Kid is nothing now.
Owen Hart

If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.
Lakhdar Brahimi

Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.
Alva Myrdal

In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse.
Kary Mullis

I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
Hal Sutton

We spent a month in LA using a pool of musicians, a string arranger called Benjamin Wright, some great backing singers, and it gave tracks like Dynamite, which was written there, that kind of flavour.
Jay Kay

Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.
Katharine Anthony

Dynamite Translations

dynamite in Danish is dynamit
dynamite in Dutch is dynamiet
dynamite in German is Dynamit
dynamite in Italian is dinamite
dynamite in Norwegian is dynamitt
dynamite in Portuguese is dinamite
dynamite in Spanish is dinamita
dynamite in Swedish is dynamit

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