An exploding core bomb. A core bomb represented a certain class of explosive. Using vapor samplers, Qui-Gon Jinn sought to find evidence of a core bomb through the detection of its primary ingredients, namely accellerite and magnopium ferrocongregate. Malta the Hutt, while conversing with fellow Hutts Jabba and Embra, remarked that his response to the Besadii spice raid would have involved equipping a "suicidal zealot" with a core bomb, subsequently launching the person from a freighter directly into the clan's Ylesian headquarters.