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1 online resource (440 pages) |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS; CHAPTER I-PROPERTIES OF EXPLOSIVES; Definition; Classification of Explosives; A Complete Round of Ammunition; Propagation of Explosion; Detonating Fuse; Velocity of Detonation; The Munroe Effect; Sensitivity Tests; Tests of Explosive Power and Brisance; CHAPTER II-BLACK POWDER; Berthold Schwarz; Boerhaave on Black Powder; Greek Fire; Marcus Graecus; Roger Bacon; Development of Black Powder; Burning of Black Powder; Uses of Black Powder; Manufacture; Analysis; Blasting Powder; Ammonpulver; Other Related Propellent Explosives; CHAPTER III-PYROTECHNICS |
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Development of Pyrotechnic MixturesColored Lights; Railway Fusees (Truck Signal Lights); Scratch Mixture; Marine Signals; Parade Torches; Aluminum and Magnesium Flares; Lances; Picrate Compositions; Picrate Whistles; Non-Picrate Whistles; Rockets; Roman Candles; Stars; Gerbs; Fountains; Wheels; Saxons; Pinwheels; Mines; Comets and Meteors; Bombshells; Maroons; Toy Caps; Silver Torpedoes; Japanese Torpedoes; Globe Torpedoes; Railway Torpedoes; English Crackers or Grasshoppers; Chinese Firecrackers; Flash Cracker Composition; Wire Dips and Colored Fire Sticks; Pharaoh's Serpents |
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Black Non-Mercury SnakesSmokes; CHAPTER IV-AROMATIC NITRO COMPOUNDS; Effect of Groups on Further Substitution; Utilization of Coal Tar; Effects of Substituents on Explosive Strength; Mono-and Di-Nitrobenzene; Trinitrobenzene; Nitration of Chlorobenzene; Trinitrotoluene (TNT, trotyl, tolite, triton, tritol, trilite, etc.); Trinitroxylene (TNX); Nitro Derivatives of Naphthalene; Hexanitrobiphenyl; Picric Acid (melinite, lyddite, pertite, shimose, etc.); Ammonium Picrate; Guanidine Picrate; Trinitrocresol (cresylite); Trinitroresorcinol (styphnic acid); Trinitroanisol and Trinitrophenetol |
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Trinitroaniline (picramide)Tetranitroaniline (TNA); Tetryl (tetralite, pyronite); "Ethyl Tetryl." 2,4,6-Trinitrophenylethylnitramine; "Butyl Tetryl." 2,4,6-Trinitrophenyl-n-butylnitramine; Hexanitrodiphenylamine; Hexanitrodiphenyl Sulfide; Hexanitrodiphenyl Sulfone; Hexanitro-oxanilide; Hexanitrocarbanilide; Hexanitroazobenzene; CHAPTER V-NITRIC ESTERS; Methyl Nitrate; Other Alkyl Nitrates; Nitroglycerin (Glyceryl trinitrate, NG); Dinitroglycerin (Glyceryl dinitrate); Mononitroglycerin (Glyceryl mononitrate); Nitroglycide; Dinitrochlorohydrin (Glycerin chlorohydrin dinitrate) |
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Tetranitrodiglycerin (Diglycerin tetranitrate)Nitroglycol (Ethylene glycol dinitrate, ethylene dinitrate); Dinitrodiglycol (Diethylene glycol dinitrate); Trinitrophenoxyethyl Nitrate; Nitration of Ethylene; Pentryl; Hexanitrodiphenylaminoethyl Nitrate; Trimethylene Glycol Dinitrate; Propylene Glycol Dinitrate (Methylglycol dinitrate, methylnitroglycol); Butylene Glycol Dinitrate; Nitroerythrite (Erythritol tetranitrate); Nitromannite (Mannitol hexanitrate); Nitrodulcite (Dulcitol hexanitrate); Nitrosorbite (Sorbitol hexanitrate); Nitrated Sugar Mixtures |
| Summary |
The present volume contains in one binding the whole contents of Volume I, first published in May, 1941, and the whole contents of Volume II which was published in March, 1943. The book was primarily for chemists. The writing of it was commenced in order that a textbook might be available for the use of students in the course in powder and explosives which the author gave for about twenty years (nearly every year since the first World War) to fourth-year and graduate students of chemistry and of chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The aim of the book has been to describe as clearly and interestingly as possible, and as fully as seemed profitable the modes of behavior, both physical and chemical, of explosive substances, whether these modes find practical application or not. Historical material has been included where it was thought that it contributed to this end, and has not been included elsewhere or for any other reason. It is a fact that a knowledge of the history of ideas, of persons, or of things produces something of the same sympathetic understanding of them that living with them and working with them does. -- Provided by publisher |
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Nitroarabinose (l-Arabinose tetranitrate), C5H6O(ONO2)4 |
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Explosives.
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Fireworks.
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explosive.
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fireworks (explosive equipment)
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Explosives
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Fireworks
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
178625896X |
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9781786258960 |
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