(1) The suitcase contained chlorate of potash and paraffin wax, which was mixed with gelignite to form an explosive compound.

(2) However, he was finding it much more difficult than he had anticipated - the architects had designed the building to be bomb-proof, and he had already used about 22 lb of gelignite in an attempt to bring it down.

(3) I've been harbouring an idea for some time which, as far as pubescent boys would be concerned, is entertainment gelignite .

(4) But even there I cannot picture an example where a purchasing officer in a mining camp in Western Australia would be asked why he would be buying gelignite , for example.

(5) In 1983, nine sticks of gelignite , 25 kilograms of ammonium nitrate, three detonators and an igniter were found in an electrical sub-station inside the boundary fence.