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To: Joe 6-pack

I wonder if this shell was still dangerous after 160 years?............


12 posted on 02/09/2023 11:59:33 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Well, I wouldn’t go poking it with a stick.


18 posted on 02/09/2023 12:09:00 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: Red Badger

Its black powder. Its still volatile. People underestimate it.

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/news/civil-war-2.html?firefox=1

140 yrs old, exploded and killed that guy


31 posted on 02/09/2023 12:24:03 PM PST by Polynikes (Nicht geimpft Mensch 2nd Klasse)
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To: Red Badger
I wonder if this shell was still dangerous after 160 years?.

Yes.

57 posted on 02/09/2023 2:56:21 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Red Badger
Probably not. Since detonators in Civil War projectiles were either fuses or percussion, it had to have a hole in it. Rain water would would seep in over that length of time. I suppose that if it stayed dry or dried out it might be active. The percussion fuse would be a mercury fulminate type; and, "Mercury fulminate ... is known to weaken with time, by decomposing into its constituent elements". (Wikipedia)

Just to be sure, one could put it a bucket of water for a day or two. There wasn't any need to destroy it.

58 posted on 02/09/2023 3:18:58 PM PST by GingisK
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