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1868 advertisement in a mining newspaper for the California Powder Works California Powder Works was the first American explosive powder manufacturing company west of the Rocky Mountains . When the outbreak of the Civil War cut off supplies of gunpowder to California 's mining and road-building industries, a local manufacturer was needed.
Explosives commonly used as primary in detonators include lead azide, lead styphnate, tetryl, and DDNP. Early blasting caps also used silver fulminate, but it has been replaced with cheaper and safer primary explosives. Silver azide is still used sometimes, but very rarely due to its high price.
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.
It has been used to fight blazes in the US since 1963, and is the main long-term fire retardant used by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. It is also the most-used fire ...
The Pacific High Explosives Company was incorporated in California on 25 April 1906, and built a plant at Roberts Landing in San Leandro, California to manufacture Trojan powder. [2] This was the only western plant of the New York-based Trojan Powder Company. [ 6 ]
Pages in category "Explosive chemicals" The following 144 pages are in this category, out of 144 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Acetone peroxide;
Tertiary explosives, also called blasting agents, are so insensitive to shock that they cannot be reliably detonated by practical quantities of primary explosive, and instead require an intermediate explosive booster of secondary explosive. These are often used for safety and the typically lower costs of material and handling.
C-4 or Composition C-4 is a common variety of the plastic explosive family known as Composition C, which uses RDX as its explosive agent. C-4 is composed of explosives, plastic binder, plasticizer to make it malleable, and usually a marker or odorizing taggant chemical.