Percussion caps

Sporting ammunition describes rifle and handgun ammunition for hunting and target practice. Commercial hunting bullets, ranging in size from around 6 to 12mm, may differ from the conical shape of military bullets in that they 

Artillery ammunition for guns, howitzers, cannons, and mortars ranges upwards in calibre from the 20mm limit that generally divides it from small-arms ammunition. Artillery ammunition is divided into three types  

Large-calibre artillery ammunition permits a more complex payload including high explosives, bursters, shrapnel, bursting charges, fuzes, incendiaries, etc. 

In addition to catalysts, stabilizers, opacifiers (to reduce heat radiation ahead of the flame), flash depressants, plasticizers, and binders, the main fuel and oxidizers for rocket propellants include 

While the term missile can apply to any projectile ammunition, guided missiles describes those rockets whose course or trajectory is controlled electronically by computers and communications equipment. 

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Percussion or Explosive Bullet. A bullet provided with a percussion cap which, on impact, explds a powder charge inside the bullet... 

Rathsburg (Ref 5) patented some expl salts and derivatives of phenylcarboxytetrazole, which he called phenyl tetrazole-carboxylic acid, for use in detonators and percussion caps Refs 1) Beil 26, 560 2) J.A. Bladin, Ber 18,... 

Sb sulfide, stored for 40 days in a dry atm at 50°, remained unchanged Uses. Pb trinitrophloroglucinol has been proposed as an ingredient of priming compns, and for use in percussion caps and detonator formulations (Refs 2, 3,4, 5, 7 9)... 

Pyrodex comes in several types RS for rifles and shotguns, P for handguns, C for BlkPdr cannon, and CR for BlkPdr centerfire cartridges. It requires very firm bullet-seating, hot percussion caps, and a strong hammer-spring for... 

Tetrazene is a light yellow crystalline substance, insoluble in water and most organic solvents. The density is low under normal conditions, but on pressing can reach approximately 1 g ml-1. Tetrazene is weak as an initiating explosive, and is therefore not used alone. It has no advantages to commend it for use in commercial detonators, but does find application in the manufacture of military and other percussion caps. Like diazodinitrophenol, tetrazene does not detonate when ignited in the open, but only when ignited under confinement. 

Chlorate-sugar is easily ignited by the flame of a match, the spit of a percussion cap or time fuse, the heat of an incandescent wire, or upon contact with concentrated sulfuric acid. 

Antimony trisulfide TSb " + 3S. Antimony trisulfide is better known as the mineral stib-nite and is used as a yellow paint pigment and in the manufacture of ruby glass, fireworks, and matches. It is also used to make percussion caps that set off explosives. 

Polarographic estimation of Tetracene in percussion caps contg as other ingredient LSt). ... 

Percussion caps or detonators are loaded with one or more of the ortho- or para-nitrated quinone diazides of the polymeric phenols or their metallic salts. The K salt of dinitro-m-hydroxyquinone diazide is obtained from nitraminoresorcinol by treatment of the hot... 

Instantaneous fuse was made by wrapping several strands of quick match in waterproof tape. The fuse was fired by means of a percussion cap in a special pistol... 

Metallic salts of these compounds were proposed by von Herz to be used in detonators percussion caps. Lead Methylene diisonitramine is specifically mentioned (Refs 1 2)... 

Kapsiul Vosplamenitel. Igniter cap, usually referred to as squib. If followed by udarnykh sostavov , it refers to percussion igniters. The formulation used in rifle ( vintovochnyi ) percussion caps is MF 16.7, K chlorate 55.5 Sb trisulfide 27.8% for pistol ( revol vernyi ) percussion caps, MF 25.0, K chlorate 37.5 ... 

In 1818, the copper percussion caps wi re made in England, simultaneously by several gunsmiths, among them Joe Man ton. Col Hawker claimed that he improved the Man ton cap. In France, the copper cap was introduced by Degoubert in 1819... 

An expl powa contg NGu 9 7, Amm Nitrate 77.7, starch 11.6 and w 1%, is applied to polyethylene sheet overlaid stainless steel sheet and detonated from one end with a percussion cap)... 

Initiators are usually compositions from which the desired results are obtained by the interrelation of the components. This is of particular importance in the manufacture of percussion caps which are fired by striker pins to give a hot flame capable of igniting propellants and should therefore have ability to detonate. 

Formerly cap compositions were prepared by mixing the well-damped components on a glass-topped table, while adding water continuously to the mixture (especially at the edges which are liable to more rapid drying). A wooden spade was used for mixing. The mixture in the form of a paste, was made into pellets which were then dried and pressed either into the sheaths of blasting caps or into the capsules of percussion caps. 

Von Herz (Ref 1) prepd several diazo compds (such as Diazodinitropbenol, Diazo-dinitropkloToglucinol and Diazodinitroresor-cinol) which he claimed to be suitable for use in detonators percussion caps. 

Rathsburg (Ref 4) patented the use of the expl salts of tetrazole triazole or their de-rivs (including 5 Diazotetr azole) in detonators percussion caps... 

Pb Picrate, Pb Sryphnate, and others as compns for detonators 8c percussion caps Refs 1) Beil 1, 592, [651] [26081... 

Lead Salt, Basic, PbOH.Ci 2H4N70 12 mw 662.43, N 14.80% was prepd in mixed or double crysts with LA by action of HNDPhA on a Pb salt in the presence of an Azide Was proposed by Eriederich (Ref 4a) for use in primers and percussion caps (Ref 9, p H4)... 

Amorce fulminote(Fr). Blasting cap Amorce a percussion(Fr). Percussion cap... 

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