Ballistic gelatin
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ballistic-gelatin-168-13711614
title:
Ballistic gelatin
text:
Ballistic gelatin is a testing medium designed to simulate the effects of bullet wounds in animal muscle tissue. It was developed and improved by Martin Fackler and others in the field of wound ballistics. It is calibrated to match pig muscle, which is ballistically similar to human muscle tissue. Ballistic gelatin is traditionally a solution of gelatin powder in water. Ballistic gelatin closely simulates the density and viscosity of human and animal muscle tissue, and is used as a standardized
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description:
Testing medium used in ballistics
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_gelatin
date created:
2004-04-09T18:52:22Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T01:33:55Z
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