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61 relations: Activation energy, Alfred Nobel, Aluminium, Benjamin Franklin, Blasting machine, BoPET, Bridgewire, Crimp (joining), Dead man's switch, Demolition, Destroy All Humans!, Detonating cord, Detonation, Detonator (railway), Diazodinitrophenol, Dynamite, Electric discharge, Electric match, Electric spark, Exploding-bridgewire detonator, Explosive booster, Explosive device, Explosive material, Explosive train, Fellow of the Royal Society, Firing pin, Fuse (explosives), GoldenEye: Rogue Agent, Gunpowder, Ignition magneto, Imperial Chemical Industries, Kapton, Laser, Lead styphnate, Lead(II) azide, Leyden jar, List of Star Wars weapons, Manhattan Project, Mercury(II) fulminate, Mining, Modulated neutron initiator, NASA standard detonator, Nuclear weapon, Nuclear weapon design, Optical fiber, Pencil detonator, Pentaerythritol tetranitrate, Plastic explosive, Potassium chlorate, Prelinger Archives, ..., Quarry, Rack and pinion, Robert Hare (chemist), Safety fuse, Sensitivity (explosives), Shock tube detonator, Silver azide, Slapper detonator, Tetryl, TNT, William Watson (scientist). Expand index (11 more) »
Activation energy
In chemistry and physics, activation energy is the energy which must be available to a chemical or nuclear system with potential reactants to result in: a chemical reaction, nuclear reaction, or other various other physical phenomena.
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Alfred Nobel
Alfred Bernhard Nobel (21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist.
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Aluminium
Aluminium or aluminum is a chemical element with symbol Al and atomic number 13.
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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin (April 17, 1790) was an American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
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Blasting machine
A blasting machine or shot exploder is a portable source of electric current to reliably fire a blasting cap to trigger a main explosive charge.
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BoPET
BoPET (biaxially-oriented polyethylene terephthalate) is a polyester film made from stretched polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and is used for its high tensile strength, chemical and dimensional stability, transparency, reflectivity, gas and aroma barrier properties, and electrical insulation.
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Bridgewire
A bridgewire, sometimes spelled as bridge wire, also known as a hot bridge wire (HBW) is a relatively thin resistance wire used to set off a pyrotechnic composition serving as pyrotechnic initiator.
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Crimp (joining)
Crimping is joining two or more pieces of metal or other ductile material by deforming one or both of them to hold the other.
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Dead man's switch
A dead man's switch (for other names, see alternative names) is a switch that is automatically operated if the human operator becomes incapacitated, such as through death, loss of consciousness, or being bodily removed from control.
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Demolition
Demolition or razing is the tearing down of buildings and other man-made structures.
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Destroy All Humans!
Destroy All Humans! is an open world action-adventure video game franchise that is designed as a parody of Cold War-era alien invasion films.
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Detonating cord
Detonating cord (also called detonation cord, detacord, det. cord, detcord, primer cord or sun cord) is a thin, flexible plastic tube usually filled with pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN, pentrite).
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Detonation
Detonation 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.
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Detonator (railway)
A railway detonator (torpedo in North America) is a coin-sized device that is used as a loud warning signal to train drivers.
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Diazodinitrophenol
Diazodinitrophenol (DDNP) was the first diazo compound produced; it was subsequently used to make dyes and explosives.
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Dynamite
Dynamite is an explosive made of nitroglycerin, sorbents (such as powdered shells or clay) and stabilizers.
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Electric discharge
An electric discharge is the release and transmission of electricity in an applied electric field through a medium such as a gas.
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Electric match
An electric match is a device that uses an externally applied electric current to ignite a combustible compound.
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Electric spark
An electric spark is an abrupt electrical discharge that occurs when a sufficiently high electric field creates an ionized, electrically conductive channel through a normally-insulating medium, often air or other gases or gas mixtures.
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Exploding-bridgewire detonator
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.
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Explosive booster
An explosive booster is a sensitive explosive charge that acts as a bridge between a (relatively weak) conventional detonator and a low-sensitivity (but typically high-energy) explosive such as TNT.
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Explosive device
An explosive device is device that relies on the exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide a violent release of energy.
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Explosive material
An explosive material, also called an explosive, is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion if released suddenly, usually accompanied by the production of light, heat, sound, and pressure.
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Explosive train
A triggering sequence, also called an explosive train, is a sequence of events that culminates in the detonation of explosives.
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Fellow of the Royal Society
Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society judges to have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science and medical science".
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Firing pin
A firing pin or striker is part of the firing mechanism used in a firearm or explosive device e.g. an M14 landmine or bomb fuze.
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Fuse (explosives)
In an explosive, pyrotechnic device, or military munition, a fuse (or fuze) is the part of the device that initiates function.
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GoldenEye: Rogue Agent
GoldenEye: Rogue Agent is a first-person shooter video game developed by EA Los Angeles and published by Electronic Arts.
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Gunpowder
Gunpowder, also known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive.
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Ignition magneto
An ignition magneto, or high tension magneto, is a magneto that provides current for the ignition system of a spark-ignition engine, such as a petrol engine.
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Imperial Chemical Industries
Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) was a British chemical company and was, for much of its history, the largest manufacturer in Britain.
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Kapton
Kapton is a polyimide film developed by DuPont in the late 1960s that remains stable across a wide range of temperatures, from.
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Laser
A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation.
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Lead styphnate
Lead styphnate (lead 2,4,6-trinitroresorcinate, C6HN3O8Pb), whose name is derived from styphnic acid, is an explosive used as a component in primer and detonator mixtures for less sensitive secondary explosives.
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Lead(II) azide
Lead azide (Pb(N3)2) is an inorganic compound.
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Leyden jar
A Leyden jar (or Leiden jar) stores a high-voltage electric charge (from an external source) between electrical conductors on the inside and outside of a glass jar.
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List of Star Wars weapons
The following is a list of weapons shown in the Star Wars universe.
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Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons.
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Mercury(II) fulminate
Mercury(II) fulminate, or Hg(CNO)2, is a primary explosive.
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Mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually from an orebody, lode, vein, seam, reef or placer deposit.
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Modulated neutron initiator
A modulated neutron initiator is a neutron source capable of producing a burst of neutrons on activation.
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NASA standard detonator
The NASA Standard Detonator (NSD) is a device used by NASA for applications where a charge must be detonated, usually in conjunction with frangible nuts as a release mechanism.
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Nuclear weapon
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or from a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb).
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Nuclear weapon design
Nuclear weapon designs are physical, chemical, and engineering arrangements that cause the physics package of a nuclear weapon to detonate.
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Optical fiber
An optical fiber or optical fibre is a flexible, transparent fiber made by drawing glass (silica) or plastic to a diameter slightly thicker than that of a human hair.
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Pencil detonator
A pencil detonator or time pencil is a time fuze designed to be connected to a detonator or short length of safety fuse.
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Pentaerythritol tetranitrate
Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), also known as PENT, PENTA, TEN, corpent, or penthrite (or—rarely and primarily in German—as nitropenta), is an explosive material.
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Plastic explosive
Plastic explosive is a soft and hand-moldable solid form of explosive material.
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Potassium chlorate
Potassium chlorate is a compound containing potassium, chlorine and oxygen atoms, with the molecular formula KClO3.
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Prelinger Archives
The Prelinger Archives is a collection of films relating to U.S. cultural history, the evolution of the American landscape, everyday life and social history.
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Quarry
A quarry is a place from which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate has been excavated from the ground.
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Rack and pinion
A rack and pinion is a type of linear actuator that comprises a pair of gears which convert rotational motion into linear motion.
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Robert Hare (chemist)
Robert Hare (January 17, 1781 – May 15, 1858) was an early American chemist.
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Safety fuse
The safety fuse is a type of fuse invented and patented by English inventor William Bickford in 1831.
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Sensitivity (explosives)
Sensitivity of explosives is the degree to which an explosive can be initiated by impact, heat, or friction.
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Shock tube detonator
A shock tube detonator is a non-electric explosive fuze or initiator in the form of small-diameter hollow plastic tubing used to transport an initiating signal to an explosive charge by means of a percussive wave traveling the length of the tube.
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Silver azide
Silver azide is the chemical compound with the formula AgN3.
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Slapper detonator
A slapper detonator, also called exploding foil initiator (EFI), is a relatively recent kind of a detonator developed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US Patent No.
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Tetryl
2,4,6-Trinitrophenylmethylnitramine commonly referred to as tetryl (C7H5N5O8) is an explosive compound used to make detonators and explosive booster charges.
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TNT
Trinitrotoluene (TNT), or more specifically 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene, is a chemical compound with the formula C6H2(NO2)3CH3.
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William Watson (scientist)
Sir William Watson, FRS (3 April 1715 – 10 May 1787) was a British physician and scientist who was born and died in London.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detonator
