Talk:Detonator

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The contents of the Blasting cap page were merged into Detonator on 3 February 2017. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected page, please see its history; for the discussion at that location, see its talk page.

exploding-bridgewire detonators do contain explosives, the difference is that the energy to set off the primary explosive charge is provided by the vaporization of the bridgewire, rather than heating or a spark —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.218.212.69 (talk) 16:00, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]