• A shock tube detonator is a non-electric explosive fuze or initiator in the form of small-diameter hollow plastic tubing used to transport an initiating...
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    For the pyrotechnic initiator, see Shock tube detonator The shock tube is an instrument used to replicate and direct blast waves at a sensor or a model...
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    Explosive Detonator (NPED) in which the primary explosive is replaced by a flammable but non-explosive mixture that propagates a shock wave along a tube into...
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    Nonel (category Detonators)
    Nonel is a shock tube detonator designed to initiate explosions, generally for the purpose of demolition of buildings and for use in the blasting of rock...
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    kf. It comprises a striking mechanism, safety pin and the MD-6N shock tube detonator. Upon a vehicle driving over a TM-46 mine equipped with this fuze...
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    cord and a dead-man switch to bring a Mafia family into submission. Shock tube detonator - another type of tubular explosive detonation system with a very...
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  • initiation source, such as a tar-fuse for time delay, or a shock tube detonator. The rear part of a detonator is usually made of a rigid but malleable aluminium...
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  • inserting a detonator and firing it. An initiator such as a shock tube, cannon fuse, or even a conventional detonator does not deliver sufficient shock to detonate...
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    firing pin and detonator close to the nose with a long flash tube to the booster (typical in US designs), or a long firing pin to a detonator close to the...
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    Percussion cap (category Detonators)
    small amount of a shock-sensitive explosive material such as mercuric fulminate (discovered in 1800; it was the only practical detonator used from about...
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    Patent no. 534,289 (February 19, 1895) Krehl, Peter O. K., History of Shock Waves, Explosions and Impact: A Chronological and Biographical Reference...
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  • explosives are used in detonators. For explosives that use secondary explosives, contact explosives are used in the detonators to set off an energy chain...
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  • arc-heating are used in laser detonators, exploding-bridgewire detonators, and exploding foil initiators, where a shock wave and then detonation in conventional...
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    Bomb (section Shock)
    ten seconds. The explosion of a bomb may be triggered by a detonator or a fuse. Detonators are triggered by clocks, remote controls like cell phones or...
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    1935). "Explosion waves and shock waves, Part II — The shock waves and explosion products sent out by blasting detonators". Proceedings of the Royal Society...
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    consists of an explosive charge ("filler"), a detonator mechanism, an internal striker to trigger the detonator, an arming safety secured by a transport safety...
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    importantly used in exploding-bridgewire detonators for the atomic bombs. These exploding-bridgewire detonators gave more precise detonation compared to...
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    gas pressure buildup is too slow, resulting in bleed-out through the detonator ignition hole. Insufficiently tight threading can also bleed gas pressure...
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    overcame the resistance of a creep spring and was thrown forward into a stab detonator. By mid-1940, Germany introduced the first HEAT round to be fired by a...
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  • bore safety" can be achieved with mechanical shutters that isolate the detonator from the main charge until the shell is fired. A fuze may contain only...
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    facilities in Graham, Kentucky, & Moorpark, California. "Primacord | detonator". "Dyno Nobel". Archived from the original on 2013-04-02. Retrieved 2013-03-25...
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  • (daytime) OMAB-N (ОМАБ-Н) - sea-orientation (night) FAB with short body   Detonator FAB high elongation   Explosive FAB Thick-walled   Body High-explosive...
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    the water near the target and subjecting it to a destructive hydraulic shock. Most depth charges use high explosives with a fuze set to detonate the...
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    neutrons to initiate a fission chain reaction.   An exploding-bridgewire detonator simultaneously starts a detonation wave in each of the 32 tapered high-explosive...
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    be reached with conventional black powder fuses, nitrocellulose rods, detonators, pyrotechnic initiators, or other common igniting substances. Even when...
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  • 1016/S0375-9474(99)85017-9. S2CID 15893165. Scott, Jeff (17 April 2005). "Shock Diamonds and Mach Disks". Aerospaceweb.org. Retrieved 6 November 2011. Zakharov...
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  • stations, as well as on a bus in Shoreditch. In these incidents, each bomb detonator fired, but did not ignite the main explosive charge. 2007 29 June 2007:...
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  • substituted explosives for the alkali metals. A wire connected to an offscreen detonator can be observed on the side of the bathtub filled with water for a brief...
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  • the 1860 U.S. Presidential election; a working 19th-century dynamite detonator; a mid-1960s three-wheeled B&Z Electra-King electric car; a pair of mint...
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    (reservoir) are used as energy sources for the exploding-bridgewire detonators or slapper detonators in nuclear weapons and other specialty weapons. Experimental...
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