Excerpt from Initial Priming Substances for High Explosives

The course that an explosive reaction may take is in¿uenced by the character of the initial impulse imparted to the explosive and also by the nature of the explosive itself. In other words, the effect produced by an explosive in practice depends not only on the explo sive, but also on the primer 0 used to set it off.

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