By-and-by crystals are deposited in fine silky scales, which possess the property of detonatingwith combustible bodies still more violently than saltpetre.
The warhead is the forward portion of the torpedo and contains usually wet gun-cotton, which is a safe high explosive and can be exploded only by a detonating charge of the more sensitive explosives.
This detonating charge is placed in a tube screwed into the forward end of the torpedo.
The chloride and iodide of nitrogen are very powerful detonating substances.
The gas, mixed in the air, would have produced a detonating mixture, and an explosion would have finished what a shock had perhaps begun.
Commercial machines fordetonating as many as 250 standard No.
These torpedoes were about four feet in length, charged with a very powerful high explosive, and armed with a detonating fuze.
Later, my fuse was subjected to a very long series of tests, and it was finally adopted in 1907 as the service detonating fuse by the United States Navy.
The projectile was provided with a safety delay-action detonating fuse, designed to explode it after having penetrated the object struck, thereby securing the maximum destructive effects.
The observers in the armed merchant-cruiser could see the delicate smoke-wreaths from the detonating projectile being riven by the rush of air from the swiftly-moving machine.
The two detonating rockets exploded with loud reports, and, in spite of the fury of the wind, the people in the boat heard the signal.
The author has proposed to use the detonating explosives for testing the integrity of large masses of metals and their resistance to shock.
Subsequently, their attention being called to the sharpness and carrying power of the report from detonating gun cotton, an apparatus was devised in which the gun cotton was detonated in the focus of a parabolic mirror.
In this work the loaded can, having a detonating cap attached to its top, is lowered by a wire to the bottom of the well, which is often fifteen hundred feet or more in depth.
Within fifteen seconds from the moment I felt the jolt of the detonating charge Fritz's conning-tower was breaking surface on my starboard beam.
As they were both set for the same depth it is probable that the one staggeringly powerful explosion we felt was caused by their detonating simultaneously.
But the bing of a depth-charge detonatingwell under the water is quite unmistakable, and the first U-boat I tried to lure with one made off forthwith, plainly under the impression that it was the object of an active attack.
When these detonating signals were first invented, it was resolved to ascertain whether they acted efficiently, and especially whether the noise they produced was sufficient to be distinctly heard by the engine driver.
During the prevalence of fogs, when neither signal-posts nor lights are of any use, detonating signals are frequently employed, which are affixed to the rails, and exploded by the iron tread of the advancing locomotive.
As Boyton came opposite, he stood up in the water and lighted a detonating rocket.
Every person was supplied with detonating rockets which were fired off in showers and that was the manner of showing good will at every place in the country.
Taking a powerful detonating rocket from the Baby, he fired it into their midst and it bursted above.
Then, for a moment, a graver suspicion crossed his mind: might not some detonating substance of a nature to explode when trodden upon, have been flung in?
It was only when thedetonating cap came into use that the paper cartridge answered well in breech-loaders.
The more closely it is confined the greater is the pressure set up by a small part of the charge burning, and the more completely will the explosion of the remainder assume the detonating form.
On the nipple was placed the copper cap containing the detonating composition, now made of three parts of chlorate of potash, two of fulminate of mercury and one of powdered glass.
Compared with dynamite, it is not so violent, and occupies more space, weight for weight, and also requires a more complicated means of detonating it.
Detonating fuzes should always be placed in an iron case during the process of testing.
It consists of a box a, containing the charge and fitted with several detonating fuzes.
Champion and Pellet, tend to show that it is due to the vibratory action of the detonating agent.
For the purpose of detonating nitro-glycerine or its preparations, 15 grains of the fulminate are sufficient, but to detonate gun-cotton 25 grains are necessary.
The detonating composition employed in this and many other forms of percussion fuzes by the Confederates, etc.
The want of reciprocity between two detonating agents is shown in a remarkable degree by the following experiments, carried out by Professor Abel:-- 1.
The mode of firing nitro-glycerine usually employed is that of a fulminate of mercury detonating fuse.
A wrought-iron rail can be destroyed by detonating 8 ounces of compressed gun-cotton placed unconfined on the rail.
The fulminate indetonating fuzes should be enclosed in a copper case or cap, and must never be loose.
Such detonating caps would be indestructible, and might be alternately moistened and dried without injury.
It has a magazine a, for containing the detonating powder, which revolves round a roller b, whose end is screwed into the breech of the barrel.
No elevation of temperature of an atmospheric kind, compatible with human existence, could cause spontaneous combustion of the fulminating mercury, or the detonating matches made with it.
This interesting saline compound has become the object of a pretty extensive manufacture, in consequence of its application to make matches for procuring instantaneous light, and a detonating powder for fire-arms.
Illustration: 400] The invention of the copper percussion cap was another great improvement upon the detonating plan.
For which reason fulminate of mercury is now preferred by many sportsmen as a detonating powder.
Of late years a detonating priming for fire-arms has been much used with the percussion locks.
Such a varnish is very cheap, dries readily, adheres strongly, screens the fulminate from damp, and does not impair or counteract its detonating powers.
No, it is like the gun you hear at Edinburgh at one o'clock a long way off," which is a good description of the familiar detonating sound (cf.
It was first introduced in naval ordnance by Sir Charles Douglas, and has now given way to the detonating hammer and friction-tube, as the old match and the salamander did to the lock.
One wherein the ignition for the cartridge is produced by the penetration of the detonating priming by a steel spike working in the lock.
The means of firing a gun most in favour at present in the British service; ignition is caused by the friction on sudden withdrawal of a small horizontal metal bar from the detonating priming in the head of the tube.
Those in use with port-fires for firing guns before the introduction of detonating and friction-tubes.
Reports, or detonating cases, may be fixed to tourbillons, if so required.
This substance is the detonating oil, composed, according to analysis, of chlorine, azote, and hydrogen.
If a small portion of chloride of azote (Detonating oil) be dropped into a solution of phosphorus in ether or alcohol, a violent explosion will take place: or, Experiment 35.
In fact carbonic acid appears to assist the explosive effect of this powder, for when it is prepared with potash, containing little carbonic acid, its detonating power is considerably less.
As ammonia forms several detonating compounds with metallic oxides, the theory of their explosive effects is the same; viz.
That indigo produces a detonating powder by treating it with nitric acid, is evident from experiment.
Detonating oil is considered, however, a chloride of azote.
Of Detonating Oil, or Chloride of Azote, 179 xxxii.
His letter to Sir Joseph Banks on a newdetonating compound.
For this new body Davy suggested the name of Azotane; but I have already observed, that his nomenclature of the compounds of chlorine has never been adopted; the detonating substance is now very properly denominated Chloride of Nitrogen.
There is a new fuse now prescribed for our artillery called "The Detonating Fuse.
It can only be detonated by first detonating a small piece of dry gun-cotton placed near it.
But how this could have been conveniently carried out, without some application of detonating powders in place of flint, steel, and gunpowder, I do not understand.
That he was very probably familiar with the application of such chemical detonating agents has already been suggested.
I am satisfied however, that several very dangerous detonating powders were well known to the alchemists; and the condensed pocket size of the machine described, would evidently require some such preparation.
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