The booster charge ignites the propellant in the igniter initiator; and combustion products of this propellant ignite the solid rocket motor initiator, which fires down the entire vertical length of the solid rocket motor igniting the solid rocket motor propellant along its entire surface area instantaneously.
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The two major variants, the BLU-43 / B and BLU-44 / B, differ only in the process by which they were thus " sterilized . " However the reliability of the mechanism was largely unknown, and the detonator and booster charge could still present a hazard.
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The mines is armed by removal of a small safety pin, after which pressure on the small pressure plate compresses a small spring, which releases two small safety detents, releasing the striker to be forced into a percussion cap, triggering the booster charge and then the main charge.
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Tetryl replaced picric acid because it is more stable, and was once a very popular chemical for booster charges, particularly during World War II . However, since then Tetryl has largely been replaced by other compositions, e . g . a small cylinder or pellet of phlegmatized RDX ( e . g.
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Martinez, of course, can hardly be expected to give a booster charge to an offense that has scored five runs in four games against the Big Three of Oakland _ Messrs . Mulder, Hudson, and Zito _ and Saturday rookie righthander Josh Towers, upon whom the Orioles have invested big hopes but who nonetheless entered winless in his last six starts.
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In Canberra on Friday, Australian police added weight to a possible Java connection when they announced that the main blast, which destroyed the packed Sari Club, was by explosive chlorate set off by a " booster charge, " such as TNT . More than 400 kilograms ( 880 pounds ) of chlorate were stolen on Java, Indonesia's main island, in September, they said.
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It has a steel casing with a central, main fuze well, below which is a tetryl booster charge, both surrounded by the main explosive filling of TNT . The mine can be fitted with a variety of fuzes, including a double-impulse fuze ( which gives it some resistance to explosive demining methods ) or the L93A1 tilt-rod fuze, which gives it a full width attack capability.
