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  2. Electric match - Wikipedia

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    Electric matches before, during and after ignition. An electric match is a device that uses an externally applied electric current to ignite a combustible compound.. Electric matches use a bridgewire consisting of a heating element to ignite a pyrogen, which is a quantity of readily ignited pyrotechnic initiator composition.

  3. High energy ignition - Wikipedia

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    The correct part number of the pole piece and plate assembly for a particular vehicle should be determined from the appropriate parts book. The part number of a pole piece and plate assembly can be dete3rmined by visual inspection by the colored ties or connectors ant he number of teeth on the timer core and pole piece.

  4. Retaining ring - Wikipedia

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    A circular push-on ring resembles a toothed washer, commonly fabricated in metal. These are installed by pressing onto the end of a grooved shaft, until the nut's inner teeth snap into the groove. The use of push nuts avoids the cost of threading a nut onto the end of the shaft during the manufacturing process.

  5. Pyrotechnic initiator - Wikipedia

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    In pyrotechnics, a pyrotechnic initiator (also initiator or igniter) is a device containing a pyrotechnic composition used primarily to ignite other, more difficult-to-ignite materials, such as thermites, gas generators, and solid-fuel rockets. The name is often used also for the compositions themselves.

  6. Ignitron - Wikipedia

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    (1) Anode, (2) Cathode, (3) Ignitor, (4) Mercury, (5) Ceramic insulators, (6) Cooling fluid An ignitron is a type of gas-filled tube used as a controlled rectifier and dating from the 1930s. Invented by Joseph Slepian while employed by Westinghouse , Westinghouse was the original manufacturer and owned trademark rights to the name "Ignitron".

  7. Exploding-bridgewire detonator - Wikipedia

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    During this phase the electrical resistance of the bridgewire assembly rises. Then an electric arc forms in the metal vapor, leading to drop of electrical resistance and sharp growth of the current, quick further heating of the ionized metal vapor, and formation of a shock wave. To achieve the melting and subsequent vaporizing of the wire in ...

  8. Ring binder - Wikipedia

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    Leitz created the lever arch file, a standing binder with a riveted lever arch mechanism (the lever can be easily opened, closed and locked) and space-saving slots into the cover, thereby introducing the modern ring binder. [4] [5] Another design for ring binders was invented in 1889 by Andreas Tengwall in Helsingborg, Sweden, and patented in ...

  9. Detonating cord - Wikipedia

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    Detonation cord will initiate most commercial high explosives (dynamite, gelignite, sensitised gels, etc.) but will not initiate less sensitive blasting agents like ANFO on its own. 25 to 50 grain/foot (5.3 to 10.6 g/m) detonation cord has approximately the same initiating power as a #8 blasting cap in every 2 to 4 inches (5 to 10 cm) along its ...