It is a strong acid, forming well crystallised yellow salts, which detonate violently when heated, some of them also by percussion.
The detonation of a small quantity of dry picric acid is sufficient todetonate a much larger quantity containing as much as 17 per cent.
In fact, the only way to explode roburite is to detonate it by means of a cap of fulminate, containing at least 1 gramme of fulminate of mercury.
It went on past its apparent target and did not even detonate at nearest proximity, as it should have done.
It was fused to detonate at the very tip of the fringes of the planet's atmosphere.
A large charge of fulminate of mercury placed inside the cartridge case next the primer will not detonate the powder, it serving only to ignite it and cause it to explode.
Gun-cotton alone and in its fibrous state has been found to be too quick, or violent, for propulsive purposes, such as use in firearms; as under such conditions of confinement it is very likely to detonate and burst the gun.
Combat engineers used 8,500 tons of explosives to detonate one huge fortification.
But this time I did not have the advantageous aid of having the torpedo detonate under the magazine, so for twenty minutes the Hogue lay wounded and helpless on the surface before it heaved, half turned over, and sank.
But the British soldier is a difficult person to impress or depress, even by immense shells filled with a high explosive, which detonate with terrific violence and form craters large enough to act as graves for five horses.
The more sluggish the gun-cotton, the more powerful must be the fuse exploders to detonate it, and such exploders are themselves liable to premature ignition in passing through the armor.
On standing with sodium it acquires a yellowish coloration, and does not detonate with iodine.
Pure caraway oil does not detonate with iodine, which is the case with oil containing oil of turpentine.
Rosemary oil does not detonate with iodine, but simply dissolves with heating and perhaps the emission of vapors.
This test is based upon the fact that some oils violently detonate with iodine, while others develop heat and vapors, and others again remain indifferent.
Lastly, melt your Regulus over again a third, or even a fourth time, always adding a little Nitre, which will detonate as before.
Iron exposed to the fire together with nitre makes it detonate pretty briskly, sets it in a flame, and decomposes it with rapidity.
In this indurated condition the gun cotton will burn freely, but it has not been possible to detonate it even when closely confined and exposed to the initial detonation of large masses of mercury fulminate.
When used to detonate gun cotton, either when confined or in the open, the detonator is placed in the hole which has been molded in the center of the gun cotton disk or block, so that it shall be in close contact with the gun cotton.
It was a most ingeniously-constructed infernal machine which would detonate the quantity of high-explosive which she saw had been placed within.
A small charge of dry guncotton will, however, detonatethe wet material, and this peculiarity is made use of in the employment of guncotton for blasting purposes.
Guncotton containing more than 15% of water is uninflammable, may be compressed or worked without danger and is much more difficult to detonate by a fulminate detonator than when dry.
Guncotton in an air-dry state, whether in the original form or after grinding to pulp and compressing, burns with very great rapidity but does not detonate unless confined.
As the quantity of contained water increases it becomes difficult or even impossible to detonate by an ordinary blow.
That it is not alone due to the heat caused by the impact of the mechanical energy of the particles of gas, set free from the initiatory charge on the principal mass, is proved by the fact of its being possible to detonate wet gun-cotton.
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.
An equal quantity of fulminate of mercury, similarly confined, does not detonate uncompressed gun-cotton in which it is imbedded, but merely disperses and inflames it.
They state that fulminate of mercury does not detonate gunpowder; but if the exploding charge is a small amount of nitro-glycerine, itself detonated by fulminate of mercury, then an explosion of the first order is obtained.
As the Sherman emerged on the other side, Marine riflemen cut down two Japanese soldiers trying to detonate magnetic mines against its sides.
The sturdy bunkers proved impervious to bazooka rockets, which failed to detonate in the soft earth covering the structures, and to fire from 37mm guns, which could not penetrate the logs protecting the occupants.
The depth-charge had fouled a trailing wire from some of my 'stage scenery sky' and been dragged along to detonate close astern.
Only the fact that, by a miracle, the torpedo failed to detonate her depth-charges saved the Courser from destruction, and even as it was, rare seamanship had been required to take her back to port.
Dimitriev, "and detonate the bombs yourself, from no greater distance than a thousand kilometers?
Now we are come to the hard part: how to detonate safely and accurately.
As he spoke he watched and moved his hands across the console, all the while fighting the bitter urge to detonate now: too soon.
Or I coulddetonate the bombs myself, safely and surely, by cable from Leopold Station.
With the static storms this heavy and unpredictable, they could detonate too soon, or not at all.
If there is any interference with our egress, no matter at what point, we will not hesitate to detonate it.
Not to mention, he was planning to detonate a nuclear device somewhere in the world.
If there is an assault, all I have to do is retire to the lower level of the facility and then detonate one of the nuclear devices I now have armed.
Yes; and they produce the singular appearance of a flash of fire issuing from water, as the bubbles kindle and detonate on the surface of the water, at the instant that they come in contact with the atmosphere.
We must now heat the retort over the lamp, after having engaged its neck under water--you see it begins to boil; in a few minutes bubbles will appear, which take fire and detonate as they issue from the water.
Hyperoxygenated muriate of potassa, mixed with sulphur, or with sulphur and charcoal, is apt to detonate spontaneously.
Both the yellow and red sulphuret of arsenic will detonate with chlorate of potassa.
If soap bubbles be formed of a mixture of hydrogen gas and atmospheric air, and touched with a lighted taper, they will detonatein the air.
There are several other metallic preparations which detonate violently, such as the fulminating gold, fulminating mercury, &c.
The spicular crystals, when wrapped up in paper, and struck with a hammer, detonate with a purple light.
The fulminating silver, mixed with any substance, or used by itself, will detonate by percussion.
Three parts of the salt and one of sulphur detonate when rubbed in a mortar.
After dark the heavy dew moistened the hide and caused it to contract until the tension upon the trigger was sufficient to release the bolt action and detonate the cartridges.
Fulminate of mercury is obtained in white grains, or short needles, of a silky lustre, which become gray upon exposure to light, and detonate either by a blow or at a heat under 370 deg.
Shoot it into the ground in front of them, deep enough to be below their canopy ray, see, and detonate under them as they go over it!
I decided to send three balls down each, leave 12 in the cavern, then detonate them all at once.
But the British soldier is a difficult person to impress or depress, even by immense shells filled with a high explosive which detonate with terrific violence and form craters large enough to act as graves for five horses.
But this time I did not have the advantageous aid of having the torpedo detonate under the magazine, so for twenty minutes the Hogue lay wounded and helpless on the surface before she heaved, half turned over and sank.
If he could get close to that huge rocket, close enough to detonate its solid fuel stores.
