Safe Enough to Kill: Advances in the Chemistry of Explosives
Overview
Warfare took a deadly step forward with the invention and development of powerful explosives in the nineteenth century. Guncotton ...
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Explosives
Explosives are substances that produce violent chemical or nuclear reactions. These reactions generate large amounts of heat and gas in a fraction of a second. Shock waves produced by rapid...
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Explosives and Propellants
Explosions occur when gases in a confined space expand with a pressure and velocity that cause stresses greater than the confining structure can withstand. The gas expans...
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Safe Enough to Kill: Advances in the Chemistry of Explosives
Explosives
Explosives and Propellants