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  1. Small explosive charge used to trigger off a
  2. main charge of high explosive. The relatively
  3. unstable compounds mercury fulminate and lead
  4. acid are often used in detonators, being set
  5. off by a lighted fuse or, more commonly, an
  6. electric current.
  7.