A personal note, if you will forgive me. I find hypocrites to be among the most offensive of persons. For example, consider a person who would, decades after Elmer Keith's death, berate Keith for simply having used the wrong terminology more than one-half century earlier. As late as last year, said person was still holding a torch because Keith had used the wrong terminology when expressing a belief in the need for use of better steel in the production of reloading dies. One might be forgiven for expecting one who would deride Keith for such an innocent and harmless transgression to be very cautious in his own publication submissions.
(It occurs to this author that Keith may very well have suffered from an editorial transgression in this matter; Keith may very well have specified a reasonable type of steel, only to have some ignorant editor "fix" the text in hopes that his uneducated readers might understand it better; since I have had, on five separate occasions, different editors make such a fix to one single word – adsorbed, incorrectly changed to absorbed! – I am definitely sensitive to this likelihood.)
Finally, I am attempting to present information for the typical reader, rather than for the professional explosives expert. Hence, some definitions may lack scientific preciseness – my hope is that these and the associated arguments will carry the intended message, despite this transgression.