Do land mines contain powders?

Question

Research for my book. Just want to know if they have some sort of powder in them. Is that how explosive devices work? Definitely DON'T want to know how they are made.

Answer 1

There are different mines for different purposes and from different ages what kind of powder were you thinking of?

Originally mines were built by putting a tunnel under a city’s protective wall, barrels of gunpowder were put in and then exploded. Explosives developed beyond gunpowder (aka black powder), and by the First World War solid explosives were used (gunpowder is ruined by water and is unstable) after the Second World War plastic explosives were used. Powders were used in some chemical mines, setting one off would mix a powder with a liquid to produce a gas although these were rare and abandoned. Anti-personnel mines are the subject of a moratorium but there are other anti-personnel automatic weapons.

Answer 2

TNT -C4

Answer 3

yea, they contain powder explosive like tetryl, trinitrotoluene(TNT), or cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine(RNX)