Wave-like effects produced by the detonation of gun-cotton

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Abstract
ART. V.-Wave-like ejfecls p1'oa1lced by the Detonation of G1tn-cotton / by OHARLES E. M"CNROE.-With Plate IV.HAVING had occasion recently to determine how readily gun-cotton which was completely saturated with water conld be detonated, I employed for the purpose a tin can, with a smooth fl~t bottOl~ to hold the gnn-cotton disk and then -fi~led the can WIth sufficIent water to Just completely covel' the dIsk.A paraffined dry disk of gun-cotton, to serve as a primer, ,,-as then laid directly on top of and in contact with the wet disk, and a detonator containing thirty.fivegrains of mercury fulminate was inserted in the primer for the purpose of firing it.The arrangement is shown in fig. 1, where A represents the 1.
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Authors Charles E. Munroe
Journal american journal of science
Year 1888
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10.2475/ajs.s3-36.211.48
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