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a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time
this cartridge has a powder charge of 50 grains
How To Use bursting charge In A Sentence
- E E E are each priming charges of seven grains of pistol powder, made up in shalloon bags to insure the ignition of the bursting charge, which is in a bag of serge and shalloon beneath. Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887
