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    Flash powder is a pyrotechnic composition, a mixture of oxidizer and metallic fuel, which burns quickly (deflagrates) and produces a loud noise regardless...
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    from single-use flashbulbs and flammable powders. Modern cameras often activate flash units automatically. Flash units are commonly built directly into...
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    electric flash-lamp uses electric current to start flash powder burning, to provide a brief sudden burst of bright light. It was principally used for flash photography...
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  • concentration of flash powder, in a paper case, that is ejected into the air with a black-powder lifting charge, ignited by a fuse. The flash powder explodes...
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    for "standard" equipment and "80" is for the 80 grains (5.2 grams) of flash powder within it. Later, M-80s were manufactured as consumer fireworks made...
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  • impact. Flash powders are used in a variety of military and police tactical pyrotechnics. Stun grenades, flash bangs, and flares all use flash powder to create...
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    Smokeless powder is a type of propellant used in firearms and artillery that produces less smoke and less fouling when fired compared to black powder. Because...
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  • salutes also have a bright flash. They most commonly consist of a 70:30 mixture of potassium perchlorate and dark aluminium powder and may have titanium added...
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    are generally made of cardboard or plastic, with flash powder, cordite, smokeless powder, or black powder as the propellant. This is not always the case...
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    dimensions: 1" x 2.5" or 3/4" x 6". These salutes typically carry 25 grams of flash powder but in rare occasions have been measured and can contain upward to 30...
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    theatrical special effects. Historically it was also used as a photographic flash powder. Both these uses rely on the same principle as a dust explosion, as the...
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    Photoflash bomb (redirect from Flash bomb)
    flash powder "charge" and a fuse. The fuse would be attached to the hanging wire using a standard friction wire, which would ignite the flash powder after...
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    The flash pan or priming pan is a small receptacle for priming powder, found next to the touch hole on muzzle-loading guns. Flash pans are found on gonnes...
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    Gunpowder (redirect from Black powder)
    Gunpowder, also commonly known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive. It consists of...
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  • Powder, or Lift Charge is a slang term for Gunpowder. The term "Lift Powder" is mostly used in the Fireworks Industry. "Pyro Projects: Black Powder Manufacture"...
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    A flash suppressor, also known as a flash guard, flash eliminator, flash hider, or flash cone, is a device attached to the muzzle of a rifle that reduces...
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  • compositions are: flash powder – burns very fast, produces explosions and/or bright flashes of light gunpowder – burns slower than flash powder, produces large...
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    bomb contains a core of explosive composition (e.g., flash powder or, less commonly, black powder) which is generally encapsulated inside two nested paper...
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    revelation from the traditional, posed, studio portraits or the formal, flash-powder illuminated, group photographs, an English editor called them "candid...
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    Thermite (category Powders)
    Thermite (/ˈθɜːrmaɪt/) is a pyrotechnic composition of metal powder and metal oxide. When ignited by heat or chemical reaction, thermite undergoes an exothermic...
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    different hurdles in photography. However, lighting was a big hurdle. Flash powder was the first means of artificial lighting that allowed to produce sufficient...
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    cardboard tube 2-1/8" x 3/4". Colors may vary. They contain 10 grams of flash powder that is ignited via a visco fuse positioned in the center or side of...
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    contain flash powder, producing a quick flash followed by a very loud report resembling military artillery. Titanium may be added to the flash powder mix...
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  • Explosive (redirect from Powder explosive)
    as gaseous or liquid oxygen. Black powder: Potassium nitrate, charcoal and sulfur Flash powder: Fine metal powder (usually aluminium or magnesium) and...
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  • addition, the League deduce there may be a mole on board when a camera's flash powder residue is found in the wheelhouse and one of the vials of Jekyll's transformation...
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    bursting charge is ignited by a primer at the base of the shell. Black powder Flash powder H3 Whistle mix Federal Register. Office of the Federal Register,...
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  • aerial UN 0094 1.1G Flash powder UN 0095 ? (UN No. no longer in use) UN 0096 ? (UN No. no longer in use) Flash powder, photo-flash (UN No. no longer in...
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    Providing oxygen it can be used as flash powder oxidizer with metal fuels such as magnesium, aluminium, or magnalium powder. Sometimes it is used in strobe...
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    It was rebuilt in Monheim in 1945. In 1958, the first synchronized flash powder device was presented, in 1972 the world's first automatic film splicer...
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    Johannes Gaedicke, flash powder was a mixture of magnesium with potassium chlorate and some antimony sulfide for added stability; the powder was used in a...
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