Cracker ball

Arai M., Ohuchi H., Itoh M., Yoshida T., Hosoya F., Katsumata K, Mizushima Y. and Hosoya M., "Drop-, Impact- and Burning Tests of Cracker Ball, Hiratama and Smoke Golf Balls", Explosives and Safety, 14(3), 18 (1982)... 

The wet process is used for manufacturing cracker balls(the composition consists of realgar and potassium chlorate), paper caps (red phosphorus, sulphur and potassium chlorate) and pull-igniters (red phosphorus, antimony trisulphide and potassium chlorate). 

Crackers include such items as cracker ball, Christmas cracker. 

B) includes noise compositions which are quite sensitive and snake compositions which exhibit curious phenomena, etc. It can be seen from the diagram that toy firework compositions, (A+B), are more numerous than those for ordinary fireworks (A). The reason is that, in the case of toy fireworks it is possible to increase the safety of the compositions to a high degree by complete division and isolation. Following this principle even some sensitive compositions which are never used for shells, exhibition fireworks etc. can be used for toy fireworks. For example, a composition which contains potassium chlorate and red phosphorus is used for pistol caps or another compositon which contains potassium chlorate and realgar is used for cracker balls. These compositions are generally used only for toy fireworks. 

This is not as sensitive as the red phosphorus-chlorate composition but is one of the most dreadful firework compositions. It is used for cracker balls, the last noise of smoke bombs, small rockets etc., under the name, "Red explosive". The wet process is recommended for the manufacture of these items, but the dry process is commonly used except for cracker ba lls. 

Cracker ball. Each of these is spherical and about 10 mm in diameter. When it is thrown on the ground or other hard surfaces it explodes. The construction is shown in Fig.136. A quantity of sand grains coated with... 

For example, some cracker balls. on the market contained 0.5 grams of sand and 0.05 grams of the composition per piece. This ignited at about 290°C. The shape of the sand grains influences the sensitivity of the cracker ball. River sand gives greater sensitivity than sea sand because... 

Cottonseed flakes and cot-n-nuts have been used in many foods. The Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences has published (11) nCooking with Cottonseed", a booklet which is available on request. Examples of foods with cottonseed flakes are orange cotton cake, cot-n-nut chewies, granola bars, sausage and cotton balls, bolla chips (a high protein snack food), cot-n-nut cups, sausage in a cottonseed roll, and cotton cheese crackers. 

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