Talk:Staged detonation

This general principle is used in many aspects of blasting. It is very often over-simplified to "primary and secondary explosive" but there is a significant difference. The main difference is that some components make use of the principle of staged detonation, but not all staged detonation trains make use of these specific components. Like "all thumbs are fingers, but not all fingers are thumbs".

Since it's a conceptual principle it includes all devices where this principle is used, but each one device does not describe the overall principle well enough.

The use of a primary and secondary explosive was the first use of the staged detonation principle, and was revolutionary to the safety of the mining industry. After this staged detonation is used in everything from explosive lenses in nuclear weapons (where the different properties of each explosive create a perfectly spherical detonation wave moving in towards origo) to mining where each blasting operation requires several stages to detonate each main charge, not only the primary and secondary explosive used in the simplest staged detonation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Student342 (talk • contribs)

@Student342: I believe it was tagged for Proposed Deletion because it reads very much like an instruction or how-to manual instead of an encyclopedia article. It also does not contain reliable sources for its content. 331dot (talk) 19:17, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks 331dot. Student342 Please add valid resources and restructure the style to comply with Wikipedia standards. Lakun.patra (talk) 19:20, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

I'm on it! Student342 (talk) 19:23, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

V. 2

This is the second version, will return to add more material, but I have to prepare for a presentation tomorrow.

331dot and Lakun.patraDo you think that the changes done so far has dealt with the "Written like a manual" by removing and reformulating those sections?

"General Notability" by more clearly explaining what the difference is between the principle of staged detonations as the principle covers several different applied methods?

The source issue by adding sources, both litterature and journal articles that can be difficult to come by, as well as web resources that are easily accessible by readers?

Feedback on what has been written so far would be greatly appreciated! Student342 (talk) 21:50, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

It seems OK enough to me to remove the tags. 331dot (talk) 21:51, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

331dot Thank you. I'll add more once I've visited the mil. tech. I have access to.Student342 (talk) 21:56, 14 April 2015 (UTC)