Detonating cord (also called detonation cord, detcord, detacord, blasting rope, or primer cord) is a thin, flexible plastic tube usually filled with pentaerythritol...
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Cordtex is a type of detonating cord generally used in mining. "Cordtex" and "Primacord" are two of many trademarks which have slipped into use as a generic...
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Primacord is a brand of detonating cord used in blasting. It was developed in 1936 by the Ensign-Bickford Company. Ensign-Bickford sold their registered...
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1 m) length of detonating cord assembled with detonating cord clips and capped at each end with a booster. When the charge is detonated, the explosive...
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reliable than detonating cord containing the same quantity of explosive. Another early product contained an enclosed combusting, non-detonating fiber. The...
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in mining technology was detonating cord. Ensign-Bickford and other companies developed different versions of detonating cord. In 1937, Ensign-Bickford...
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Explosive (redirect from Detonating explosive)
inert projectiles. D: Secondary detonating explosive substance or black powder or article containing a secondary detonating explosive substance, in each...
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cortex All pages with titles beginning with cortical Cordtex, a type of detonating cord used in mining Corex (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists...
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grenades and are triggered electrically or by lengths of detonating cord. In some designs, detonating cord is used to rupture the container immediately before...
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manufactured by Imperial Chemical Industries in Scotland. fuse (explosives) Detonating cord Encyclopedic dictionary of pyrotechnics (and related subjects), Part...
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TNT booster, were connected by 150 metres (490 ft) of PETN-filled detonating cord. Ninety-four RDX electric detonators were fitted to the TNT. The total...
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lengths of detonating cord. Some designs use lengths of detonating cord or blasting caps to rupture the fuel container as well as detonate the main charge...
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inserting one end of a length of detonating cord in the detonator cavity of the MRUD and taping the other end of the detonating cord to the bottom of the PMA-2...
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assembly of PETN and wax inside the charge assures high reliability for detonating cord or detonator. The H (or SE) variant is intended for explosion hardening...
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www.britannica.com. 2023-06-16. Retrieved 2023-06-27. "Explosive - Detonating Cord, Primacord, TNT, and Shaped Charge | Britannica". www.britannica.com...
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(about the size of drink cans), ammonium nitrate, aluminum powder, and detonating cord. The explosives were packed into twenty specially designed wooden crates...
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plastic explosive (PE).[citation needed] The PE is then primed with detonating cord and a detonator, and pickets are taped or wired together to make a...
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substance. Group D: Secondary detonating explosive substance or black powder or article containing a secondary detonating explosive substance, in each...
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A mechanically-operated detonator at the end of 72 feet (22 m) of detonating cord led to the propellant charge. The M388 nuclear projectile was attached...
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scene, Boddicker's stuntman was thrown through glass panes rigged with detonating cord to shatter microseconds before he hit. Gelatin capsules filled with...
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Additionally, a special effects pyrotechnician can be endorsed for the use of detonating cord. Since commercial-grade fireworks are shells which are loaded into...
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violations were discovered and over 3 tons of explosives, 11 kilometers of detonating cord, and over 15,000 detonators were seized. On 3 April 2004, in Leganés...
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had no bursting charge or fuze, but required a bursting charge of detonating cord to be attached via soldered tabs on the outside of the can. "History...
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electric detonator initiates the S&A firing train which initiates a detonating cord which then initiates a thin layer of liquid propellant, which by gravity...
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are placed in the holes. Smaller columns and walls are wrapped in detonating cord. The goal is to use as little explosive as possible so that the structure...
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had strung detonating cord along a line of fir trees opposite the police station, beyond a playing field. The detonating cord was exploded immediately...
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28,000 17,400 2.594×10−5 Speed of propagation of the explosion in a detonating cord. 104 10,600 38,160 23,713.65 0.00004 Speed of propagation of the explosion...
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nitrate, dynamite, electric, non electric and electronic detonators, detonating cord and cast boosters. They also produce surface and underground loading...
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Iraqi spies M Iraqi June 23, 2015 Mosul, Iraq RPG blast, drowning and detonating cord Spying and giving away information about the Islamic State Faisal Hussain...
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explosion would be greatly reduced. The bomb squad eventually found the detonating cord leads, which ran under the front passenger seat of the car; Peter Gurney...
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