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Safety Fuse

A water-proof, coated, thread-wrapped cord with a black powder core designed to be used to initiate a non-electric blasting cap. DISCUSSION: Safety fuse is larger in diameter than hobby or pyrotechnic fuse; has higher quality construction; and has better reproducibility in timing (distance burned per second).

Date Added to Lexicon
Standard Source (Designation Number Title of Standard. Publisher, Place, Year.)
ASTM E3196-21 Standard Terminology Relating to the Examination of Explosives. ASTM International, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, West Conshohocken, PA 19428, 2021. Source link
Reprinted, with permission, from ASTM E1732-24e1 Standard Terminology Relating to Forensic Science, copyright ASTM International, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, West Conshohocken, PA 19428. A copy of the complete standard is available from ASTM International, https://www.astm.org