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warning on reloading from Alliants Web Site:

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Originally posted by craigster:
Doc,

I'll add a stick to the fire, smokeless powders are considered to be flammable solids, not explosives.

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Originally posted by airgun1:
In their dreams!!! Not worth the time it took to type that.

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Originally posted by vapodog:

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warning on reloading from Alliants Web Site:

At least from my view.....one cannot connect the dots between use of powders not specified on the manufacturers loading data and the quoted warning.

They are not at all the same thing.

I neither condone nor condemn the use of powders not stated by manufacturers....However I won't use such data for my own reloading.

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If you read the disclaimer carefully you will see that it also applies to any data they provide.

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Originally posted by wasbeeman:
Oh boy, sounds like another AR pissing contest is shaping up.

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Originally posted by Doc224/375:
"Explosive." Explosive - any chemical compound, mixture, or device, the primary or common purpose of which is to function by explosion, i.e., with substantially instantaneous release of gas and heat, unless such compound, mixture, or device is otherwise specifically classified by the U.S. Department of Transportation; see 49 CFR chapter I. The term "explosives" shall include all material which is classified as Class A, Class B, and Class C explosives by the U.S. Department of Transportation, and includes, but is not limited to dynamite, black powder, pellet powders, initiating explosives, blasting caps, electric blasting caps, safety fuse, fuse lighters, fuse igniters, squibs, cordeau detonant fuse, instantaneous fuse, igniter cord, igniters, small arms ammunition, small arms ammunition primers, smokeless propellant, cartridges for propellant-actuated power devices, and cartridges for industrial guns. Commercial explosives are those explosives which are intended to be used in commercial or industrial operations.

How's that for Ole Hollywood Doc !!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Courtesy DOT !.

An explosion is a rapid increase in volume and release of energy in an extreme manner, usually with the generation of high temperatures and the release of gases. An explosion creates a shock wave. If the shock wave is a supersonic detonation, then the source of the blast is called a "high explosive". Subsonic shock waves are created by low explosives through the slower burning process known as deflagration.


ex·plo·sive
   /ɪkˈsploʊsɪv/ Show Spelled[ik-sploh-siv] Show IPA
–adjective
1.
tending or serving to explode: an explosive temper; Nitroglycerin is an explosive substance.
2.
pertaining to or of the nature of an explosion: explosive violence.
3.
likely to lead to violence or hostility: an explosive issue.
4.
Phonetics. plosive.
–noun
5.
an explosive agent or substance, as dynamite.
6.
Phonetics. plosive.


Explosion ;

The act of exploding; detonation; a chemical action which causes the sudden formation of a great volume of expanded gas; as, the explosion of gunpowder, of fire damp,etc.
A bursting with violence and loud noise, because of internal pressure; as, the explosion of a gun, a bomb, a steam boiler, etc.
A violent outburst of feeling, manifested by excited language, action, etc.; as, an explosion of wrath.




explosion ;
Pronunciation: \ik-ˈsplō-zhən\
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin explosion-, explosio act of driving off by clapping, from explodere
Date: 1667

1 : the act or an instance of exploding <injured in a laboratory explosion>
2 : a large-scale, rapid, or spectacular expansion or bursting out or forth <the explosion of suburbia> <an explosion of red hair>
3 : the release of occluded breath that occurs in one kind of articulation of stop consonants

Class dismissed !!!.

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*Smokeless powder for small arms is not an explosive regulated by Federal Explosive Law, but may explode if misused."