The police are trying to defuse a very 'explosive' [='volatile'] situation.
the danger of working with 'high explosives' [=very powerful explosives]
The region has experienced 'explosive' [='rapid'] population growth.
(..) as a pack of cigarettes? Only objects of equal size. Why not a bomb or something to get me? It can't form complex machines. Guns, explosives have chemicals, moving parts. It doesn't work that way. But it can form solid metal shapes. Like what? - Knives and stabbing weapons. (..)1991 Terminator 2: Judgment Day