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RECENTLY, when making certain experiments with the fuses for trench mortar shells, a thin (0.1 mm.) disk of pure aluminium was placed between the primer and the detonator. It was noticed that, immediately after this disk was pierced by the gases of the exploding primer, a white mass started to grow on the aluminium surface around the hole, and this growth continued to expand most vigorously for about 12–15 min.
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LARIKOV, G. Primer Explosion Triggers Reaction. Nature 184, 447 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/184447a0
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