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Meaning of "percussion cap"

A percussion cap is a small metal cap containing an explosive compound that is placed on the nipple of a firearm. When struck by the weapon's hammer or firing pin, it detonates, igniting the propellant charge and firing the gun. Percussion caps were commonly used in firearms before the advent of modern cartridge ammunition.
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  • a metal cap found on muzzleloading firearms that contains chemical substances such as fulminate that explode upon impact

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Hunting knife with percussion cap pistol.
The percussion cap was placed over the nipple.
These still used a separate percussion cap.
Electric match and percussion cap are the most common ones.
Percussion cap systems relied on small copper caps that were filled with mercury fulminate.
Why they used an antique percussion cap pistol to do it.
The percussion cap is a small cylinder of copper or brass with one closed end.
The standard pressure sensor used a percussion cap to ignite it.
An arrangement of a percussion cap insured the explosion of the shell on impact.
The propellant charge is ignited when the firing pin hits the percussion cap.
This is a percussion cap.
In modern systems, this is almost always a percussion cap.
Ordinary percussion cap.
It continued to be in common use for over two centuries, replaced by percussion cap.
His cartridge consisted of a percussion cap with a bullet attached to the top.

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Forsyth's invention was soon improved by others and became known as the percussion cap.
Using this discovery, the percussion cap was created.
The concentration of the beam at this point causes the optical breakdown of percussion cap 44.
Originally, the topmost canister had a percussion cap that was to detonate the main charge.
It includes a percussion cap which initiates a pyrotechnic delay which will discharge via the flame distributor 27.
Pulling the trigger releases a hammer that strikes the percussion cap and ignites the explosive primer.
The percussion cap went off without firing the rifle, and the noise alerted Ruffin 's daughter-in-law.
In the latter, the hammer struck the percussion cap directly.
Cap 28 has a thinned part or percussion cap 32 which is destroyed in the explosion of charge 24.
The interior side of the multiple-chamber ring was lined with the corresponding 18 percussion cap nipples.
Why they used an antique percussion cap pistol to do it . And.
Optional initiation systems may replace the squib-type initiators, for example, with a percussion cap primer system.
Furthermore there is provided a percussion cap 7, an igniter composition 8 and an igniter cap 9.
What about the bullet? That 's the problem . It has a percussion cap.
Half-cock it, put a percussion cap in there.
FIG . 14 is a partial longitudinal cross-sectional view of an initiation system utilizing a percussion cap and a squib.
Cloning . Colour photography . Percussion cap.
Initially, the regiment was armed with .69 caliber rifled muskets, altered to use a percussion cap.
The Remington New Model Army was a .44 caliber percussion cap revolver.
The latter also includes the cartridge case 14, filled with propellant, with a rear percussion cap 15.
By the late 1860s, breech-loading metallic cartridges had made the percussion cap system obsolete.
FIG . 13 is a partial longitudinal cross-sectional view of a percussion cap initiator.

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