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The Thermalite could be ignited by a match, or more certainly by a purpose made igniter, similar to a wire sparkler. An expedient formerly used to ignite bickford style safety fuses was to split the end of a safety fuse, place a match head into the split and tie the split back together, holding the match head against the powder core.
Tovex is a 50/50 aqueous solution of ammonium nitrate and methylammonium nitrate (sometimes also called monomethylamine nitrate, or PR-M), sensitized fuels, and other ingredients including sodium nitrate prills, finely divided (paint-grade) aluminum, finely divided coal, proprietary materials to make some grades cap sensitive, and thickening agents to enhance water resistance and to act as ...
As of 2014, the company is the 33rd largest contractor by revenue in the world. [2] The major shareholder of the company (40.8%) is state-owned China Gezhouba Group Corporation (CGGC, Chinese: 中国葛洲坝集团公司), which is in turn a subsidiary of the China Energy Engineering Corporation (Energy China). [1]
Tibet Gaozheng Civil Explosives (Chinese: 西藏高争民爆股份) or Tibet Gaozheng Explosives, Tibet Gaozheng Civil Explosives Co., Ltd. was founded on January 2, 2014, through the complete transformation of the former Tibet Gaozheng Civil Explosives Materials Limited Liability Company into a state-controlled enterprise in the Tibet Autonomous Region, specializing in the production, sales ...
A smoke bomb with a lit fuse. In an explosive, pyrotechnic device, or military munition, a fuse (or fuze) is the part of the device that initiates function.In common usage, the word fuse is used indiscriminately.
Oxygen-balanced iron thermite 2Al + Fe 2 O 3 has theoretical maximum density of 4.175 g/cm 3 an adiabatic burn temperature of 3135 K or 2862 °C or 5183 °F (with phase transitions included, limited by iron, which boils at 3135 K), the aluminium oxide is (briefly) molten and the produced iron is mostly liquid with part of it being in gaseous ...
Sidney Christopher Alford OBE (11 January 1935 – 27 January 2021 [1]) was an inventor, explosives engineer and a doctor of chemistry. Dr Alford was the Chairman of Alford Technologies Limited, [2] a world-leading provider of explosive engineering and explosive charge technology, that he founded in 1985.
Hanwha Group (Korean: 한화그룹; Hanja: 韓火그룹; RR: Hanhwa Geurup) is a large business conglomerate in South Korea. [2] Founded in 1952 as Korea Explosives Co. (한국화약주식회사; 韓國火藥株式會社), the group has grown into a large multi-profile business conglomerate, with diversified holdings stretching from explosives—their original business—to energy, materials ...