Booster charge

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The booster charge (also transfer charge , booster , the booster or secondary charge ) is used for igniting less sensitive explosives . It is used in explosive weapons and civilian explosive charges . A booster charge is detonated by an initial explosive (primary charge) located in a detonator or percussion cap .

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Compressed tetryl , trinitrotoluene , phlegmatized hexogen , nitropenta , picric acid and other explosives are commonly used as booster charges. What all these substances have in common is that they are more sensitive to the initial impulse than the explosives of the main charge (e.g. ANC explosives , cast TNT , powdered explosives ). Gelatinous explosives are often used as a booster charge in rock blasting in order to initiate the main charge from powdered or emulsion explosives .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinrich Otto Buja: Engineering Manual mining technology: deposits and production technology , Beuth Verlag , 2013, ISBN 9783410226192 , p 290 [1]
  2. ↑ Dieter Wöhrle in Science - Armament - Peace: Basic Knowledge for Peace Research , Springer-Verlag , 2007, ISBN 9783531906164 , pp. 191–192 [2]