AFTE Store - Percussion Primer Mixes

This article is a historical review covering early percussion primer mixes through today’s safer and cheaper noncorrosive, nomercuric compositions. The author references numerous patents and other published information that provide a background for understanding the progress to recent times. Also included is information on updated Diazodinitrophenol (DDNP) and stablizied red phosphorus and data of thermochemical calculations that have appeared in the open literature.