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bursting charge::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | burster, charge, explosive charge |
| Type of | explosive |
| Has types | rocket fuel, rocket propellant, rocket propellent, shot, undercharge |
Examples of bursting charge
bursting charge
They have a strong steel case, a bursting charge, and a fuze.
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Shells designed for this purpose sometimes had a greatly strengthened case with a small bursting charge, and sometimes were solid metal, i.e. shot.
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Practice artillery ammunition often utilizes a colored-smoke-generating bursting charge for marking purposes in place of the normal high explosive charge.
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In the cutaway view, the dark grey is the wall of the shell, the medium grey is sulphur resin, the light grey are the musket balls, and the black is the bursting charge.
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However, in 1852 Colonel Boxer proposed using a diaphragm to separate the bullets from the bursting charge, this proved successful and was adopted the following year.
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In the 1870s William Armstrong provided a design with the bursting charge in the head and the shell wall made of steel and hence much thinner than previous cast-iron shrapnel shell walls.
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It used a much thinner forged steel shell case with a timer fuze in the nose and a tube running through the centre to convey the ignition flash to a gunpowder bursting charge in the shell base.
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With case the lethality of the balls and fragments came from the velocity of the bursting projectile itself-the small burst charge only fragmented the case and dispersed the shrapnel.
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