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  2. Deflagration - Wikipedia

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    Rather, confidently differentiating between the two requires instrumentation and diagnostics to ascertain reaction speed in the affected material. Therefore, when an unexpected event or an accident occurs with an explosive material or an explosive-containing system it is usually impossible to know whether the explosive deflagrated or detonated ...

  3. Chapman–Jouguet condition - Wikipedia

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    David Chapman [3] and Émile Jouguet [4] originally (c. 1900) stated the condition for an infinitesimally thin detonation. A physical interpretation of the condition is usually based on the later modelling (c. 1943) by Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, [5] John von Neumann, [6] and Werner Döring [7] (the so-called ZND detonation model).

  4. Detonation - Wikipedia

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    Detonation (from Latin detonare 'to thunder down/forth') [1] is a type of combustion involving a supersonic exothermic front accelerating through a medium that eventually drives a shock front propagating directly in front of it.

  5. Exploding-bridgewire detonator - Wikipedia

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    The exploding-bridgewire detonator (EBW, also known as exploding wire detonator) is a type of detonator used to initiate the detonation reaction in explosive materials, similar to a blasting cap because it is fired using an electric current. EBWs use a different physical mechanism than blasting caps, using more electricity delivered much more ...

  6. Deflagration to detonation transition - Wikipedia

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    The phenomenon is exploited in pulse detonation engines, because a detonation produces a more efficient combustion of the reactants than a deflagration does, i.e. giving a higher yields. Such engines typically employ a Shchelkin spiral in the combustion chamber to facilitate the deflagration to detonation transition. [2] [3]

  7. Detonator - Wikipedia

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    a small amount of a more powerful secondary explosive, directly in contact with the primary, and called "base" or "output" explosive, able to carry out the detonation through the casing of the detonator to the main explosive device to activate it. Explosives commonly used as primary in detonators include lead azide, lead styphnate, tetryl, and DDNP

  8. Detonation flame arrester - Wikipedia

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    This Detonation Flame Arrester is being tested for an 8-inch piping system at Brooker Laboratory Testing Company to the USCG 33cfr154.1325 Standard. Detonation Flame Arresters for various pipe sizes from Paradox Intellectual Inc. The largest detonation flame arrester ever built at the time, weighing 10 tons, for 30 inch pipe.

  9. Slapper detonator - Wikipedia

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    Instead of directly coupling the shock wave from the exploding wire (as the bridgewire does), the expanding plasma from an explosion of a metal foil drives another thin plastic or metal foil called a "flyer" or a "slapper" across a gap, and its high-velocity impact on an explosive (for example, PETN or hexanitrostilbene) then delivers the ...