[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being explosive; tendency to explode.
1826. Henry, Elem. Chem., I. 236. The explosiveness of a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen gases.
1859. Smiles, Stephenson, 98. The wire-gauze of the Davy lamp becomes red-hot from the high explosiveness of the gas.
1879. Cassell’s Techn. Educ., I. 154/2. Sift out the glass, when the powder would resume its natural explosiveness.
