Detasheet

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Detasheet is an explosive similar to plastic explosives, originally manufactured by DuPont containing PETN with nitrocellulose and a binder.

It was manufactured in thin flexible sheets with a rubbery texture, and is generally coloured either reddish/orange (commercial) or green (military). In use, it is typically cut to shape for precision engineering charges. Compared to other explosives detasheet is very stable. It is detonated with a blasting cap or primercord but not by small-arms fire, heat, water, pressure, or concussion. Detasheet is relatively expensive compared to other explosives.

DuPont ceased manufacturing explosives in the 1990s and the trade mark is now owned by Ensign-Bickford Aerospace and Defense Company, the company now selling a very similar explosive sheet called Primasheet.