Environmental Hazards Emergence of Green Initiating Substances

3 Environmental Hazards Emergence of Green Initiating Substances 

In Fig. 1.4 toxic refers to the classical compositions with toxic heavy metals, less toxic substances relate to those not containing toxic heavy metals but still containing some problematic ingredients, and green to nontoxic substances. 

The search for suitable replacements of LA and LS should not be seen as a search for one universal substance. It would obviously be nice to have one substance 

Criteria Green primary explosive (blasting caps, detonators) Green priming mixture (electric pills, percussion caps) 

Six criteria for green primaries have been proposed including [10]  

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Environmental Hazards Emergence of Green Initiating Substances Table 1.4 Some compositions of priming compositions without heavy metals... 

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