Primasheet
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Primasheet is a rubberized sheet explosive material similar to Detasheet
. Manufactured by Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense Company
Primasheet comes in two varieties: Primasheet 1000 is PETN
based and Primasheet 2000 is RDX
based. Both are waterproof and are supplied in continuous rolls.
based, and contains 65% PETN, 8% Nitrocellulose, and 27% plasticizer.
Primasheet 1000 is olive green colored, and manufactured in 1.0, 1.5, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 8mm thicknesses.
based rubberized sheet explosive. It contains 88.2% RDX with the remainder plasticizer.
Detasheet
Detasheet is a flexible rubberized explosive, somewhat similar to plastic explosives, originally manufactured by DuPont. Its ingredients are PETN with nitrocellulose and a binder.- Properties :...
. Manufactured by Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense Company
Ensign-Bickford Company
The Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense Company was started in 1836 in Simsbury, Connecticut as a manufacturer of William Bickford's safety fuse for use in mining. Safety fuse was a great advance in mining technology over the practice of filling holes with black powder. The next step in mining...
Primasheet comes in two varieties: Primasheet 1000 is PETN
PETN
Pentaerythritol tetranitrate , also known as PENT, PENTA, TEN, corpent, penthrite , is the nitrate ester of pentaerythritol. Penta refers to the five carbon atoms of the neopentane skeleton.PETN is most well known as an explosive...
based and Primasheet 2000 is RDX
RDX
RDX, an initialism for Research Department Explosive, is an explosive nitroamine widely used in military and industrial applications. It was developed as an explosive which was more powerful than TNT, and it saw wide use in WWII. RDX is also known as cyclonite, hexogen , and T4...
based. Both are waterproof and are supplied in continuous rolls.
Primasheet 1000
Primasheet 1000 is PETNPETN
Pentaerythritol tetranitrate , also known as PENT, PENTA, TEN, corpent, penthrite , is the nitrate ester of pentaerythritol. Penta refers to the five carbon atoms of the neopentane skeleton.PETN is most well known as an explosive...
based, and contains 65% PETN, 8% Nitrocellulose, and 27% plasticizer.
Primasheet 1000 is olive green colored, and manufactured in 1.0, 1.5, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 8mm thicknesses.
Primasheet 2000
Primasheet 2000 is an RDXRDX
RDX, an initialism for Research Department Explosive, is an explosive nitroamine widely used in military and industrial applications. It was developed as an explosive which was more powerful than TNT, and it saw wide use in WWII. RDX is also known as cyclonite, hexogen , and T4...
based rubberized sheet explosive. It contains 88.2% RDX with the remainder plasticizer.