Explosive

Quality:

Explosive chemicals - reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion. Article “Explosive” in English Wikipedia has 66.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 48 references and 40 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 7.38 points.

This article has the best quality in Esperanto Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8924^th most popular in AI.

In June 2026 the article “Explosive” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 18 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Explosive”, its content was written by 722 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2717 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8924^th place).

The article is cited 2714 times in English Wikipedia and cited 17229 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1152 in April 2002
• Global: #585 in June 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #664 in March 2015
• Global: #2119 in March 2015

There are 54 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Esperanto (eo) Eksplodaĵo		72.1223
2	Russian (ru) Взрывчатые вещества		67.3655
3	English (en) Explosive		66.375
4	Serbian (sr) Експлозив		53.053
5	Basque (eu) Lehergai		52.2014
6	Georgian (ka) ფეთქებადი ნივთიერება		51.5553
7	Tamil (ta) வெடிபொருள்		48.7495
8	German (de) Sprengstoff		47.5302
9	Catalan (ca) Explosiu		46.2842
10	Galician (gl) Explosivo		45.5943

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Explosive		9 257 893
2	Spanish (es) Explosivo		1 956 071
3	Russian (ru) Взрывчатые вещества		1 886 140
4	German (de) Sprengstoff		1 465 404
5	Vietnamese (vi) Thuốc nổ		1 033 966
6	French (fr) Explosif		837 861
7	Polish (pl) Materiał wybuchowy		717 371
8	Persian (fa) مواد منفجره		637 657
9	Italian (it) Esplosivo		606 934
10	Portuguese (pt) Explosivo		496 896

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Explosive		17 503
2	Russian (ru) Взрывчатые вещества		3 243
3	Persian (fa) مواد منفجره		2 459
4	German (de) Sprengstoff		1 829
5	French (fr) Explosif		1 160
6	Spanish (es) Explosivo		949
7	Ukrainian (uk) Вибухові речовини		902
8	Polish (pl) Materiał wybuchowy		808
9	Chinese (zh) 爆炸物		706
10	Italian (it) Esplosivo		589

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Explosive		722
2	German (de) Sprengstoff		281
3	French (fr) Explosif		147
4	Spanish (es) Explosivo		107
5	Russian (ru) Взрывчатые вещества		105
6	Hebrew (he) חומר נפץ		98
7	Italian (it) Esplosivo		98
8	Dutch (nl) Explosief		84
9	Vietnamese (vi) Thuốc nổ		76
10	Chinese (zh) 爆炸物		76

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Explosive		6
2	French (fr) Explosif		2
3	Serbian (sr) Експлозив		2
4	Arabic (ar) متفجرات		1
5	Catalan (ca) Explosiu		1
6	Esperanto (eo) Eksplodaĵo		1
7	Basque (eu) Lehergai		1
8	Hebrew (he) חומר נפץ		1
9	Croatian (hr) Eksploziv		1
10	Georgian (ka) ფეთქებადი ნივთიერება		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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