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Percussion cap   /pərkˈəʃən kæp/   Listen
Percussion cap

noun
1.
A detonator that explodes when struck.





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"Percussion cap" Quotes from Famous Books



... like the isolation of mercury fulminate in 1800, led to the invention of the percussion cap and other primers. On many a battleground you may have picked up a scrap of twisted wire—the loop of a friction primer. The device was a copper tube (fig. 19) filled with powder. The tube went into the vent of the cannon and buried its tip ...
— Artillery Through the Ages - A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America • Albert Manucy
... has a similarly shaped body to the wireless electric tube, but the internal construction differs; it is fitted with a striker, below which is a percussion cap on a hollow brass anvil, and the tube is ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... If with a percussion cap and a tear we may develop sufficient power to deflect a magnetic needle 3,000 miles distant, what power may not be expected of the sun, 1,250,000 times larger than the earth; the sun exercising a force ...
— New and Original Theories of the Great Physical Forces • Henry Raymond Rogers


Words linked to "Percussion cap" :   detonator, detonating device, fulminating mercury, cap, mercury fulminate, fulminate of mercury


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