In modern systems, this is almost always a percussion cap.

It was in common use before the introduction of percussion caps.

Electric match and percussion cap are the most common ones.

He had the packet of percussion caps in his pocket.

The little thing would be blown out like a percussion cap!"

By the time of the civil war, nearly all guns manufactured used the percussion cap.

She doesn't need it with that percussion cap, so you are holding a live thing in your hands right now.

They are designed for use with a percussion cap and lead shot, without gunpowder.

Later models used the percussion cap action, although both actions were manufactured and sold for some time.

Percussion caps have also been used as elements in the triggers of land mines.

The hammer would strike a percussion cap, setting off the explosive.

The hammer had not struck the percussion cap of the cartridge.

But this time there was only a disappointing click; not even the percussion cap fired.

The standard pressure sensor used a percussion cap to ignite it.

The percussion cap is a small cylinder of copper or brass with one closed end.

Matthew ran out of percussion caps for the tank.

Trapped water cracked its way to the surface with a sound like that of a percussion cap firing.

Another type of time pencil had a percussion cap but no detonator attached.

There were also some similar long-guns operating solely by percussion cap.

Its only use, aside from chemical demonstrations, is in the percussion caps for some early rifles.

The percussion cap, when struck by the hammer, ignited the powder charge.

His box was filled with an explosive, and provided with percussion caps.

"There are twenty bullets in here, all metal with percussion caps on the end.

Another guy was preparing to pour percussion caps into the barrel of his musket.

The cylinders of the revolving cannon were fired using percussion caps.

Her memory banks found the term gun and identified it as a primitive percussion-cap weapon.

The Tennessean was ramming a charge into one of the relatively new percussion-cap pistols.

But he would grasp instantly the advantage of percussion-cap guns over the flint-locks his infantry used.

The revolver of the Civil War was, of course, a percussion-cap weapon.

It was in a percussion-cap box.

Then furtively the percussion-cap box came out.

The humans might not realize it, but this light was a weapon much more powerful than the flimsy percussion-cap noisemaker.

Not the percussion-cap weapon.

Tom enclosed the tick in the percussion-cap box that had lately been the pinchbug's prison, and the boys separated, each feeling wealthier than before.

The percussion-cap system replaced the flintlock's flint and flashpan with a waterproof copper cap that created a spark when struck.

At the age of 12 he bought his first antique firearm - a percussion-cap pistol - for 3 shillings at an antique shop in Broadstairs, Kent.

The Burnside carbine: Invented by future general Ambrose Burnside in 1857, this percussion-cap carbine became the third-most common cavalry breechloader in the Civil War after the Sharps and Spencer.

The main reason the caplock was so quickly adopted was its similarity to the flintlock and the ease of converting older arms to use percussion-cap ignition; usually the same lock and barrel could be used with minor changes.

He told Levi to come back later, but the young man replied, Im not doin anything, and Fordney, realizing that he had nowhere to go, said, You can watch, and he rummaged among his boxes to find the bits of gear that would be required to switch the old flintlock over to a new percussion-cap mechanism.