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An explosive fuze is spelt with a "z", an electrical fuse in UK english with a "s" (in US english it is spelt fuze). This refers to a chemical fuze to detonate an explosive.
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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 fusesfuzes as the explosion is consistent and occurs only a few microseconds after the current is applied, with variation of only a few tens of nanoseconds from detonator to detonator.<ref name="Cooper">{{cite book
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