When the tip disintegrates, it melts and helps solidify the weld to the base material. Arc studs range from a #8 to 1 1â4  diameter. The lengths are variable from 3/8 to 60 (for deformed bars). Arc studs are typically loaded with an aluminum flux ball on the weld end which aids in the welding process.
Quoted from wiki: Inevitable discovery is a doctrine in United States criminal procedure that allows evidence of a defendant's guilt that would otherwise be considered inadmissible under the exclusionary rule to be admitted into evidence in a trial.
But the Bush doctrine is the first to elevate such wars of offense to the status of official policy, and to call preemptive (referring to imminent peril) what is actually preventive (referring to longer-term, hypothetical, avoidable peril).