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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 1991
Filed:
Feb. 22, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Imperial Chemical Industries plc, London, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C06C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
1022753 ; 1022021 ; 1022023 ; 10220213 ;
Abstract
In the field of blasting, an improvement in means for transmitting an initiating signal (non-electrically) to an explosive device to remotely detonate same in accordance with a predetermined delay period of the type which comprises tubing in which there is provided a reactive chemical composition containing at least one fuel component and at least one oxidant in intimate admixture that is capable of propagating a combustion signal from one end of said tubing to the other, the improvement consisting in the use of barium peroxide (BaO.sub.2) as the oxidant.