Excerpt from Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute, Vol. 26: June, 1900 A dry primer detonated in close contact with wet guncotton will detonate any quantity Of the latter, however large and how ever wet. Saturation, instead of lessening, seems to increase the effect Of detonated guncotton. No increase of violence can be Obtained by increasing the quantity of fulminate or of dry gun cotton. A mass of wet guncotton will have just as great an eflect when exploded by a 3-ounce dry primer and a 3-grain ...
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Excerpt from Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute, Vol. 26: June, 1900 A dry primer detonated in close contact with wet guncotton will detonate any quantity Of the latter, however large and how ever wet. Saturation, instead of lessening, seems to increase the effect Of detonated guncotton. No increase of violence can be Obtained by increasing the quantity of fulminate or of dry gun cotton. A mass of wet guncotton will have just as great an eflect when exploded by a 3-ounce dry primer and a 3-grain fulminate igniter, as if 10 pounds of dry cotton and 100 grains of fulminate were used to initiate the detonation. Close contact, however, is essential when such small quantities are used; the 3 grains of fulminate must not be separated from the dry cotton by more than the very thinnest film of metal, and the dry cotton must have the same close relation to the wet guncotton. No confinement of either wet or dry guncotton is needed for deto nation, nor does confinement add in the least to the violence of their explosion when detonated. Guncotton then, on account of its good qualities, having been adopted by all nations as the high explosive for naval warfare, we have to consider to what uses it is put and whether it can advantageously be used in other ways. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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