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Definition of Detonators
1. detonator [n] - See also: detonator
Lexicographical Neighbors of Detonators
Literary usage of Detonators
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Electrical Engineer (1898)
"The free ends of the detonators are coupled to a circuit that must be left ...
This small < so that it is impossible under ordinary to fire the detonators ..."
2. The Scots Law Times by Scotland Land Court (1893)
"That the use of detonators and the persons who -bill issue them is governed ...
That these detonators were issued to the respon- 'l"nt with the knowledge, ..."
3. Proceedings by International Railway Congress Association (1901)
"As regards the action of detonators, the models at present in use (detonators
with stem) for the repetition of fixed signals may be considered satisfactory; ..."
4. Elements of Mining by George Joseph Young (1916)
"The resistance of detonators is about 1.25 ohms. The current required for ignition
is 0.8 amp. ... After the detonators are connected up to the lead wires ..."
5. Lectures on Explosives: A Course of Lectures Prepared Especially as a Manual by Willoughby Walke (1897)
"Percussion-caps and detonators.—Caps and detonators are small cylinders made
generally of copper and filled with an explosive composition. ..."
6. Lectures on Explosives: A Course of Lectures Prepared Especially as a Manual by Willoughby Walke (1897)
"In addition to these salts of potassium, other substances are added to the
fulminate in making percussion-caps and detonators, in which industry it finds ..."
7. The Oriental Sporting Magazine: From June 1828 to June 1833. (1873)
"detonators aro, I allow, very pretty tools indeed, but notwithstanding the candid
confession, why are Flints to be so studiously avoided ? ..."
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