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Tannerite is a brand of binary explosive targets used for firearms practice and sold in kit form. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The targets comprise a combination of oxidizers and a fuel, primarily aluminium powder , that is supplied as two separate components that are mixed by the user.
The mixture is often referred to as Tannerite, which is a brand of ammonal. The ammonium nitrate functions as an oxidizer and the aluminium as fuel. The use of the relatively cheap ammonium nitrate and aluminium makes it a replacement for pure TNT. The mixture is affected by humidity because ammonium nitrate is highly hygroscopic. Ammonal's ...
A Maryland law intended specifically to ban the sale or ownership of consumer products containing binary explosive components (such as Tannerite brand rifle targets) became effective on October 1, 2012, and expanded the definition of an explosive to include, in addition to "bombs and destructive devices designed to operate by chemical ...
This page is "Tannerite" but only speaks briefly about tannerite which is a business trademark. It then goes on to speak of binary exploding targets as if they are tannerite. I feel that this is misleading as well as does nothing to help educate people on binary exploding targets or the business tannerite but instead ads to the confusion.
During the Attack of Pearl Harbor, the USS Arizona was struck with an armor-piercing bomb which penetrated the upper deck and stopped inside the forward magazine. The bomb triggered an explosion which was powerful enough to cut the Arizona in half and is considered a sympathetic detonation as there was an apparent delay between the detonation of the bomb and the contents of the forward magazine.
The cause of the fire was a detonation at a gender reveal party hosted by the Dickey family of a target packed with blue dye to indicate the male gender of their child, and Tannerite, [8] [9] a highly explosive substance, [10] by Dennis Dickey, an off-duty U.S. Border Patrol agent and the child's father.
Watermelons can offer a nice explosion of flavor in your mouth, but they shouldn’t be spontaneously combusting. Oddly enough, that’s exactly what some fans of the popular fruit are worried ...
With the PETN exploding at a rate of approximately 6,400 m/s (21,000 ft/s), any common length of detonation cord appears to explode instantaneously. It is a high-speed fuse which explodes, rather than burns , and is suitable for detonating high explosives .