regular delay cap

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    In explosive: Delay systems

    …two types: (1) the so-called regular delay, which has been in use since the early 1900s, and (2) the short-interval, or millisecond, delay, which was introduced about 1943. Except for a delay element placed between the ignition and primer charges, they are the same as instantaneous electric caps.

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