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- A bridgewire or bridge wire, also known as a hot bridge wire (HBW), is a relatively thin resistance wire used to set off a pyrotechnic composition serving...
- The exploding-bridgewire detonator (EBW, also known as exploding wire detonator) is a type of detonator used to initiate the detonation reaction in explosive...
- of the multistrand wire so that the fine strand would serve as the hot bridgewire. When a strong current from a large battery (which he called a "deflagrator"...
- the earlier exploding-bridgewire detonator. Instead of directly coupling the shock wave from the exploding wire (as the bridgewire does), the expanding...
- (pyrotechnics), a pyrotechnic composition producing flame when heated by e.g. a bridgewire This disambiguation page lists articles ****ociated with the title Pyrogen...
- worked on the design of explosive lenses, and the development of exploding-bridgewire detonators. As a member of Project Alberta, he observed the Trinity nuclear...
- electric current to ignite a combustible compound. Electric matches use a bridgewire consisting of a heating element to ignite a pyrogen, which is a quantity...
- wedges are ****ed together to form a spherical device. The exploding-bridgewire detonator at the far left triggers a semi-spherical detonation wave through...
- which there were two for each lens for reliability. They used exploding-bridgewire detonators, a new invention developed at Los Alamos by a group led by...
- capacitor banks (reservoir) are used as energy sources for the exploding-bridgewire detonators or slapper detonators in nuclear weapons and other specialty...