[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the verb EXPLODE in various senses.
1665. Glanvill, Sceps. Sci., Addr. 13. The confident exploding of all immaterial Substances. Ibid., 71. Our Author’s Metaphysical argument against a Vacuum, (the exploding of which he thinks so necessary…).
b. attrib.
1822. Imison, Sc. & Art, II. 15. These instruments are called exploding tubes.
1881. Greener, Gun, 336. The tumbler strikes an exploding-pin screwed into the false breech.
