Buxton Testing Gallery

V Two-way valve, to gas-holder or to atmosphere BUXTON TESTING GALLERY... 

The Buxton Test, often called the Home Office Test, was introduced in 1932 and is at present the British Official Gallery Test. 

Note Buxton Test is a gallery test for coal mining expls conducted in GtBritain. It is briefly described by Marshall 3(1932), 186—87 and is listed in Vol 2 of Encycl, p B394-R... 

Buxton Test. A gallery test for "Permitted expls conducted between WWI WWII at Buxron, England... 

The presently used Buxton Test, known also as the Home Office Test, was introduced in 1932 as the British Official Gallery Test and it is still used for ordinary permitted expls. After introduction of new types of expls, such as "sheathed (in 1934) and EqS (equivalent to sheathed) (in 1949) some modifications and additions were considered to be desirable and a new testing procedure was established in... 

D. Rae, Safety in Mines Res Estab, Res Rept 253 (1967) CA 69, 1140 (1968). The main characteristics of slow coal-dust explosions and their relation to the testing of barriers. The main characteristics of slow coal-dust explosions in the new gallery at Buxton are a const initial flame front acceleration from... 

In the Home Office Gallery at Buxton (Great Britain) the effect of the following groups of substances used for filling the sheaths was tested ... 

A new modern experimental gallery (modelled on the one at Buxton in Great Britain) was constructed in 1927 and the explosives which passed the gallery test with the charge of 400 g were designated Permitted Explosives (Kentei Bakuyaku). 

Ref Belgranof 1952), 174 Afror Tyne Powder. One of the older Brit "permitted expls NG + NGc 9 AN58, MNN 1, wood meal 9, NaCl 22 water %. It passed the Buxton gallery test and its swing was 2.52, vs 3.27 for Gelignite... 

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