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High explosives are subdivided by the way they are initiated into the designation primary and secondary. These are minerals that make our food tastier, precious metals that our computers and cell phones need to function properly and materials used to build buildings and pave our roads. Some commercial explosives with high fuel content may readily ignite and burn. Accessibility features in adobe acrobat, adobe reader and in the portable document format pdf make it easier for people with disabilities to use pdf documents and forms, with and without the aid of assistive technology software and devices such as screen readers, screen magnifiers, texttospeech software, speech recognition software. All of these have, in some way, been credited with setting off a rising. Security administration works with contractors to design and make explosive materials. Once youve addressed any issues found by the accessibility checker, office will use that information to create accessibility tags in the pdf. Nitroglycerin and nitrocellulose became useful explosives by the 1860s. Cdc mining a primer on explosives for coal miners niosh.
Explosives engineering home institute of explosives. How to make black powder and other explosives introduction black powder, also known as gunpowder, is an explosive that has been around, literally, for centuries. Explosives regulations accessibility buttons available. An explosive substance is a solid or liquid substance or mixture of substances which is in itself capable by chemical reaction of producing gas at such a temperature and pressure and at such a speed as to cause damage to the surroundings. Acrobat tools make it easy to create accessible pdfs and check the accessibility of existing pdfs. Making an existing pdf accessible victorian government. Consider accessibility before you convert a document to pdf. The vod range in commercial explosives is 25007500 ms. In tnt or nitroglycerin, both high explosives, the shock wave travels at a speed of 6000 msec, compared to gun powder, a low explosive, in which it travels at 100 ms. This could also be done through having preliminary screening questions with one specific to inert materials. Handbook on the management of ordnance and explosives at closed, transferring, and transferred ranges and other sites interim final february 2002. What gao found the transportation security administration tsa has taken steps to enhance its national explosives detection canine team program nedctp since gaos 20 report, but further opportunities exist for tsa to assess its canine program and potentially reduce costs. Pdf accessibility defining pdf accessibility webaim.
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