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Sensitivity of Initiator Explosives to Impact by Aqib Siddique is a document available to read on EtoBox.

This document summarizes an experiment that tested the sensitivity of two initiator explosives, dextrin lead azide and mercury fulminate, to mechanical impact. The experiment used a custom-built ball drop impact apparatus to vary both the mass and drop height of steel balls impacting samples of the explosives. Both the kinetic energy and change in momentum of the dropping balls were measured and found to correlate with the percentage of impacts that detonated the explosives. Momentum appeared to be a better

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Aqib Siddique

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