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percussion cap

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percussion cap
n.
A thin metal cap containing an explosive substance, such as fulminate of mercury, that explodes on being struck.
percussion cap
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(Military / Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) a detonator consisting of a paper or thin metal cap containing material that explodes when struck and formerly used in certain firearms
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Noun1.percussion cap - a detonator that explodes when struck
detonating device, detonator, cap - a mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive
fulminate of mercury, fulminating mercury, mercury fulminate - a fulminate that when dry explodes violently if struck or heated; used in detonators and blasting caps and percussion caps


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I open it, and there are the green-baize compartments, one with a box of percussion caps, still apparently full, another that could not contain many more wadded-bullets, and a third with a powder-horn which can never have been much lighter.
Dead Men Tell No Tales by Hornung, E. W. View in context
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