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Modern tanks are covered with reactive armor, which in some cases is packed with small amounts of explosives that will detonate an incoming warhead.

From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2022

Saturday, the unit will detonate the ordnance in place.

From Washington Times • Oct. 24, 2020

It’s a scenario straight out of Hollywood: A Russian pilot ejects from a hijacked F-4 Phantom and leaves behind an improvised nuclear device that will detonate in 90 minutes.

From Washington Times • May 16, 2019

It is not difficult to predict the outrage that Wills' book will detonate in Spiro Agnew�to say nothing of Nixon himself.

From Time Magazine Archive

In fact guncotton in the colloid state may be hammered on an anvil, and, as a rule, only the portion struck will detonate or fire.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various