The Chemistry of Powder And Explosives.

The Chemistry of Powder And Explosives.

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 us...

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Main Author: Davis, Dr. Tenney L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Francisco : Hauraki Publishing, 2016.
Subjects:
Explosives.
Fireworks.
explosive.
fireworks (explosive equipment)
Explosives
Fireworks
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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.

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