How many fingers when we throw darts? An often asked question, and it can't be answered in general. At least 3 fingers (thumb + 2), maximum all 5. All fingers should touch the barrel or the point, no finger shall touch the shaft or even the flight. A 2 finger (thumb +1) grip gives not enough control, so 3 at least. More fingers give more control in acceleration and more touch, but it makes the release more difficult as more fingers have to be coordinated. Finger coordination in release is a key point for a grip. You have to make sure that no finger can give the dart an unlucky 'kick' in release to slip it out of position at the last moment. This leads directly to the next point:

To illustrate the wide variaty of grips, some examples from the pros. Note that the grip, as written above, also partly results from the preferred barrel shape, and vice versa:

Small finger on the tip - Eric Bristow: Eric in his brilliant years used to keep his small finger wide away from the others, touching the tip of the dart. Long cylindric barrel. His grip is one variation of the basic grip, not the best, not the worst. Less talented players might struggle with it.

Three fingers - John Lowe: John uses a ton shaped rather thick and short dart, so the 3 finger grip develops natural because more fingers hardly find the space to touch the barrel. Should be considered as a standard grip for this kind of darts.

Small finger spread away - Rod Harrington: Rod uses a long and thin barrel as it becomes usual more and more when standards and accuracy of the game improve. He uses the basic grip and spreads his small finger away vertically, while the others touch the barrel. A grip that seems very logic to me, I use a similiar one, on quite the same barrel.

Holding the dart on the front end - Bob Anderson: Bob holds the dart way before the center of gravity, just a bit behind the tip. This is unusual, as most players will struggle to develop a good touch for the throw when doing this. Bob 'pulls' the dart more than he throws it. His overall throw is faster than most others and it actually seems as if he permanently is in a hurry. Lots of wrist action. He uses a pencil derived grip which seems logic with this extreme technique, and a pretty long cylindric barrel. Not the grip to recommend, but a sophisticated technique for a man who throws a very dynamic dart.

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Flight protectors are very useful. Their original purpose is enhancing the durability of your flights. Whenever an incoming dart strucks the flight of a dart already sticking in the board this flight is in danger of being damaged. The flight protector can almost eliminate this damage.

Another benefit is that flight protectors help keeping your dart spread -- which is a necessity (as explained above). The negative point with flight protectors is that they tend to get lost. When it pops off a dart it is usually impossible to find on the floor later -- it's just too small. Use flight protectors. You will have to spend a few additional bucks a season, but the benefit is worth the price.

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The dart flight is necessary to stabilize your dart in the air. Flights are available in a vast selection of colors, sizes and materials. There is no "correct" or "best" flight shape. It depends on your personal throw which flight to choose. Selecting the proper flight for your darts is a trial-error process. We will have a closer look at this in the darts tuning section.

The most important rules for handling your flights are:

1) Always use the same flight shape on all your 3 darts.

2) Always spread your flights.

we should chose right one.

This flight is flat . Bad, bad, bad! When you put new flights on your darts it is likely that the result looks like this. You will have to do some manual "spreading" work with every new flight.

This flight is spread correctly. You must spread your flights because only this guarantees a proper flight of the dart.

The flight shape in the pictures above is called "standard". Other shapes are called "pear", "kite", "electro", and many more are available. For getting started you should use the "standard" shape.

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The structures and morphologies of various commercial forms of ammonium paratungstate have been studied and related to the processes used for the production of this material. High temperature crystallization processes are shown to produce the monoclinic pentahydrate 5(NH4)2O.12WO3.5H2O which yields a cuboid or equiaxed monoclinic powder morphology. Crystallization at room temperature produces the orthorhombic undecahydrate 5(NH4)20.12WO3.11H2O which has a lath-like particle morphology. Freeze-dried ammonium paratungstate is shown to be amorphous in nature, to have a chemical composition approaching that of the undecahydrate, and to have a porous, multiparticulate agglomerate particle morphology. The apparent densities of the samples of ammonium paratungstate are explained in terms of the particle morphologies.

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Soft dart tips don't really need "maintenance". Once they are bended or broken just replace them.

If you are using "classic" steel tip darts then you don't have a choice for tips. The darts come with fixed tips that can't be replaced, or can only be replaced with work shop tools. However, there are steel darts with movable tips available. These tips are made for avoiding bounce-outs. These systems are quite good at that and usually reduce bounce-outs by 80 per cent or more.

These movable tip systems can be used on special soft dart tips from the movable tips manufacturer, or on normal and usually a lot cheaper soft darts tips  (for possible compatibility problems see the barrels section). Movable tip systems can be quite expensive. If you are a soft tipper and want to play or practice on a steel tip board on occasion and don't want to invest in movable tips then you can get cheaper "standard" replacement tips:

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Aimed at research and Design Institute of ammonium paratungstate the production waste water to put forward a reasonable process,so that the treated wastewater discharges standards.The results showed: the two methods could meet the national discharge standard.One is waste acid neutralization-lime precipitation,two is sulfuric acid neutralization-lime precipitation of arsenic and fluoride can meet the national wastewater discharge standards;fluoride ion concentration was increased to700mg/L,the method can also be used.

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Connected with the examination of the thermal polycondensation of ammonium paratungstate pentahydrate the chemical and morphological properties of intermediate phases formed during the thermal decomposition of APT have been investigated. We have studied the pH and the turbidity of the aqueous solutions of the intermediate phases, the solubility of the phases, and their rehydratation capability as well as the morphology of the crystallite granules and the grain size distribution. These properties of the original APT have been related to the same properties of the products of decomposition formed between different temperature ranges. The results obtained show unambiguously that each of the above mentioned properties suddenly changes in the temperature range 225 to 250°C. This temperature range coincides with the formation temperature of a new phase called APT II. The most probable formula of APT II is (NH₄)₈ [H₂W₁₃O₄₃(OH)₂]·H₂O.

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Tungsten carbide powder is conventionally produced by carburization of tungsten powder by carbon black in a solid–solid reaction. This paper reports the carburization of ammonium paratungstate by methane to yield tungsten carbide at low temperature in short times. The carbide powder is fine grained and has specific surface area around 35 m²/g. This makes the powder interesting for catalysis and fine grained hard metals. The influence of reaction parameters such as temperature, gas flow, composition of the reaction gas and powder charge are investigated by means of gas chromatography and XRD with Rietveld refining. The overall reaction time is the sum of reduction and carburization times of the sequential reactions. Some parameters, like gas composition affects only the carburization rate, other parameters, such as gas flow affects both reactions.

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The method is disclosed for producing ammonium paratungstate from cemented tungsten carbide which comprises subjecting the cemented tungsten carbide to electrolysis by passing about 0.5 to about 20 volts through an ammoniacal solution selected from the group consisting of ammonium hydroxide-ammonium chloride solution, ammonium hydroxide-ammonium carbonate solution, and ammonium hydroxide-ammonium sulfate solution, wherein platinum and the cemented tungsten carbide serve as the anode and wherein the anode is immersed in the solution, to decompose the cemented tungsten carbide and form a solution of ammonium tungstate from which is crystallized ammonium paratungstate.

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To obtain highly purified, lamp grade ammonium paratungstate crystals from any of several different tungsten ores, the ore is reduced to finely divided status and slurried in heated HCl solution to convert tungsten values to WO₃.H₂ O. Recovered tungstic oxide is washed and dissolved in heated aqueous solution of sodium carbonate or sodium hydroxide with the pH maintained at about 8 to 8.5 to form soluble sodium tungstate. Sodium hydroxide is added to raise the pH to about 10.5 to 11.5, and magnesium chloride is added in amount sufficient to somewhat neutralize the solution. Sodium hydroxide is added to raise the pH to about 10.5 to 11.5 to precipitate as hydroxide the magnesium and additional metallic impurities. At least one of ammonium sulfide and thioacetamide is and the heated solution is acidified to a pH in the range from about 2 to 3 to precipitate any molybdenum as MoS₃. The tungstate solution is then contacted with an organic, water-immiscible ion exchange liquid in which the active ingredient is an amine salt to extract the tungsten values. Tungsten values are then stripped from the ion exchange liquid with ammonium hydroxide to form ammonium tungstate solution, which in turn is separated. From the ammonium tungstate solution is crystallized highly purified ammonium paratungstate. The process is adaptable to continuous type operation.

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