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A matchlock firearm with its flash pan visible at center as a U-shaped depression

The flash pan or priming pan is a small receptacle for priming powder, found next to the touch hole on muzzle-loading guns. Flash pans are found on gonnes, matchlocks, wheellocks, snaplocks, snaphances, and flintlocks.

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Flash pan

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The flash pan or priming pan is a small receptacle for priming powder, found next to the touch hole on muzzle-loading guns. Flash pans are found on gonnes...

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Flash and the Pan

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Flash and the Pan were an Australian new wave musical group (essentially a studio project) formed in 1976 by Harry Vanda and George Young, both former...

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Pan

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Look up pan or pan- in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pan or PAN may refer to: Pan (cooking), a piece of cooking equipment Harina P.A.N., a pre-cooked...

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Snaphance

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steel to create a shower of sparks to ignite the priming powder in the pan, the flash partly passing through the touch hole into the barrel where it ignites...

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Snaplock

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priming powder held in the flash pan. The flash from the pan's ignited primer travels (unless there is only a "flash in the pan") through the touch hole...

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Whip pan

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frenetic pace of action. Much like the natural wipe, the whip pan, also known as the flash pan, offers a very convenient and visually interesting motivation...

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Matchlock

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dropped down, lowering the smoldering match into the flash pan and igniting the priming powder. The flash from the primer traveled through the touch hole,...

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Snap matchlock

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match held in the serpentine swung into a flash pan containing priming powder. The flash from the flash pan travelled through the touch hole igniting...

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History of the firearm

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serpentine and flash pan cover and designed so that whenever the trigger is pulled, the serpentine was lowered at the same time as flash pan cover opened...

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Touch hole

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propellant occurs), either with a slow match (matchlock), a linstock or a flash pan ignited by some type of pyrite- (wheellock) or flint-based gunlock (snaplock...

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Hand cannon

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include a flash pan attached to the barrel and a touch hole drilled through the side wall instead of the top of the barrel. The flash pan had a leather...

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Slow match

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both ends of the match cord were often ignited, as the flash of gunpowder in the flash pan could often extinguish one end of the match cord, and the...

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Frizzen

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closed, it is positioned over the flash pan so as to enclose a small priming charge of black powder next to the flash hole that is drilled through the...

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Rack and pinion

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conditions, and offered a trigger that simultaneously operated both the flash pan and serpentine. The Wu Pei Chih (1621) later described Ottoman Turkish...

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Flash memory

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electrically erased and reprogrammed. The two main types of flash memory, NOR flash and NAND flash, are named for the NOR and NAND logic gates. Both use the...

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Jezail

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musket or rifle. The argument against this method of firing is that the flash pan would be dangerously close to the face and the weapon would be harder...

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Flintlock

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Wadding between the charge and the ball was often used in earlier guns. The flash pan is primed with a small amount of very finely ground gunpowder, and the...

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2010 flash crash

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The May 6, 2010, flash crash, also known as the crash of 2:45 or simply the flash crash, was a United States trillion-dollar flash crash (a type of stock...

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Thermalite

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simultaneously igniting multiple "clustered" rocket motors. A single flashbulb or flash pan is used to ignite pieces of Thermalite leading to each motor. Thermalite...

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Gunpowder

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Philip B. (1953) Complete Guide to Handloading Funk & Wagnalls p. 137 Flash! Bang! Whiz! Archived 3 March 2008 at the Wayback Machine, University of...

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