J. Edmund Hay
Introduction: The Treasury Department’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) requested the Bureau of Mines to perform bullet impact sensitivity tests on a selection of class B (display) fireworks shells and some ingredients thereof (flash powder, “stars”), and also to establish that the flash powder used in salute shells is a detonable material, something which is widely presumed but apparently not documented. The fireworks and ingredients to be tested were procured by BATF from two different domestic suppliers and included a variety of foreign as well as domestic shells, two different flash powder compositions, and two different kinds of “stars.” Suppliers of the shells and ingredients are designated in this report as Manufacturer K and Manufacturer M.
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Ref: JPyro, Issue 2, 1995, pp36-43
(J2_36)
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