How are explosives manufactured without exploding? e.g grenades, c4
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Explosives is a broad term, there are explosives that are very sensitive which are used to initiate an explosion and explosives so inert you can set fire to them and they will just burn like a piece of wood.
Most explosive devices contain mostly inert explosives like C4 which you can add to anything with as much danger as handling clay and the sensitive explosive initiator is only added when you are ready to blow up something.
That being said the manufacturing of any explosive is extremely dangerous and handled with extreme caution, and still from time to time accidents occur (usually these are in fireworks plants handling fire sensitive black powder maybe with less stringent regulation; producing C4 is dangerous during the process but the finished product won’t accidentally explode, and producing sensitive explosives is done in smaller quantities and with great care and very strict regulations due to the extreme risk).
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