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=== Detonator ===
EWM has found its most common use as a detonator, named the [[exploding-bridgewire detonator]], for nuclear bombs. Bridgewire detonators are advantageous over chemical
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=== Light Source ===
EWM is an effective mechanism by which to get a short duration high intensity light source. The peak intensity for copper wire, for example, is 9.6·10<sup>8</sup> candle power/cm<sup>2</sup>.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Conn|first1=William|title=The Use of "Exploding Wires" as a Light Source of Very High Intensity and Short Duration|journal=Journal of the Optical Society of America|date=October 28, 1949|volume=41|issue=7|pages=445–9|url=http://www.opticsinfobase.org/view_article.cfm?gotourl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eopticsinfobase%2Eorg%2FDirectPDFAccess%2FC2AAEF95-F7D9-36C6-8FD97DC46DA8F1A9_50214%2Fjosa-41-7-445%2Epdf%3Fda%3D1%26id%3D50214%26seq%3D0%26mobile%3Dno&org=University%20of%20California%20Santa%20Barbara%20%28CDL%29|access-date=30 October 2014|doi=10.1364/josa.41.000445|pmid=14851124|url-access=subscription}}</ref> J.A. Anderson wrote in his initial spectrography studies that the light was comparable to a black body at 20,000 K.<ref name=anderson>{{cite journal|last1=Anderson|first1=J.A.|title=The Spectral Energy Distribution And Opacity Of Wire Explosion Vapors|journal= Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|date=May 22, 1922|volume=8|issue=7|pages=231–232|doi=10.1073/pnas.8.7.231|pmid=16586882|pmc=1085099|bibcode=1922PNAS....8..231A|doi-access=free}}</ref> The advantage of a flash produced in this way is that it is easily reproducible with little variation in intensity. The linear nature of the wire allows for specifically shaped and angled light flashes and different types of wires can be used to produce different colors of light.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Oster|first1=Gisela K.|last2=Marcus|first2=R. A.|title=Exploding Wire as a Light Source in Flash Photolysis|journal=The Journal of Chemical Physics|date=1957|volume=27|issue=1|pages=189|doi=10.1063/1.1743665|bibcode = 1957JChPh..27..189O |url=https://authors.library.caltech.edu/11419/1/OSTjcp57a.pdf}}</ref> The light source can be used in [[interferometry]], [[flash photolysis]], quantitative [[spectroscopy]], and [[high-speed photography]].
=== Production of Nanoparticles ===
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When EWM is performed in a standard atmosphere containing oxygen, metal oxides are formed. Pure metal nanoparticles can also be produced with EWM in an inert environment, usually argon gas or distilled water.<ref name=flur>{{cite arXiv|eprint=cond-mat/0609369|last1=Alqudami|first1=Abdullah|last2=Annapoorni|first2=S.|title=Fluorescence from metallic silver and iron nanoparticles prepared by exploding wire technique|year=2006}}</ref> Pure metal nanopowders must be kept in their inert environment because they ignite when exposed to oxygen in air.<ref name="prepnano"/> Often, the metal vapor is contained by operating the mechanism within a steel box or similar container.
Nanoparticles are a relatively new material used in medicine, manufacturing, environmental cleanup and circuitry. Metal oxide and pure metal nanoparticles are used in [[Catalysis]], sensors, oxygen antioxident, self repairing metal, ceramics, [[UV rays|UV ray]] protection, odor proofing, improved batteries, printable circuits, [[Optoelectronics|optoelectronic materials]], and [[Environmental remediation]].<ref name=Nanouses>{{cite web|last1=Boysen|first1=Earl|title=Nanoparticles Applications and Uses|url=http://www.understandingnano.com/nanoparticles.html|website=understandingnano|access-date=2 November 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Oskam|first1=Gerko|title=Metal oxide nanoparticles: synthesis, characterization and application|journal=Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology|date=24 February 2006|volume=37|issue=3|pages=161–164|doi=10.1007/s10971-005-6621-2|s2cid=98446250}}</ref> The demand for metal nanoparticles, and therefore production methods, has increased as interest in nanotechnology continues to rise. Despite its overwhelming simplicity and efficiency, it is difficult to modify the experimental apparatus to be used on an industrial scale. As such, EWM has not seen widespread utilization in material production industry due to issues in manufacturing quantity. Still, for some time, [[Argonide]] offered metal nanopowders made by the exploding wire method
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