Meanings of destructive properties in English

Debney tried peddling his sample along with the know-how necessary to unleash its destructive properties.

I believe Gadaire has hired Lampman to find out what activates the destructive properties of the Marinth alga.

The projectiles they were now raining upon the city weighed a ton apiece and had the destructive properties of that much nitroglycerine.

In place of these extinct forces, fear, with its destructive properties of expansion, rushes into the vacuum left, and completes the prostration.

One of the ironies of the current controversy about Facebook's malign influence on democracy is that it has diverted attention from Google's equally destructive properties.