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| Introduction to Explosives | |
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| Development of Blackpowder | |
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| Development of Nitroglycerine | |
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| Development of Mercury Fulminate | |
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| Development of Nitrocellulose | |
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| Development of Dynamite | |
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| Development of Ammonium Nitrate | |
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| Development of Commercial Explosives | |
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| Development of Permitted Explosives | |
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| Development of ANFO, Slurry, Emulsion and Blasting Explosives | |
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| Development of Military Explosives | |
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| Development of Picric Acid | |
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| Development of Tetryl | |
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| Development of TNT | |
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| Development of Nitroguanidine | |
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| Development of PETN | |
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| Development of RDX and HMX | |
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| Polymer Bonded Explosives | |
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| Recent Developments | |
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| Insensitive Munitions and Insensitive High Explosives | |
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| Explosives and the Environment | |
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| Classification of Explosive Materials | |
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| Explosions | |
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| Atomic Explosions | |
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| Physical Explosions | |
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| Chemical Explosions | |
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| Chemical Explosives | |
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| Classification of Chemical Explosives | |
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| Primary Explosives | |
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| Secondary Explosives | |
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| Propellants | |
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| Chemical Data on Explosive Materials | |
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| Primary Explosives | |
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| Mercury Fulminate | |
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| Lead Azide | |
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| Lead Styphnate | |
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| Silver Azide | |
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| Tetrazene | |
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| Secondary Explosives | |
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| Nitroglycerine | |
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| Nitrocellulose | |
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| Picric Acid | |
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| Tetryl | |
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| TNT | |
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| Nitroguanidine | |
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| PETN | |
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| RDX | |
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| HMX | |
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| TATB | |
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| HNS | |
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| NTO | |
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| TNAZ | |
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| CL-20 | |
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| Fox-12 (GUDN) | |
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| DNAN | |
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| FOX-7 (DADNE) | |
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| LLM-105 | |
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| Other Compounds used in Explosive Compositions | |
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| Combustion, Deflagration and Detonation | |
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| Combustion | |
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| Physical and Chemical Aspects of Combustion | |
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| Combustion of Explosives and Propellants | |
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| Deflagration | |
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| Detonation | |
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| Burning to Detonation | |
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| Shock to Detonation | |
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| Propagation of the Detonation Shockwave | |
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| Effect of Density on the Velocity of Detonation | |
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| Effect of Diameter of the Explosive Composition On the Velocity of Detonation | |
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| Effect of Explosive Material on the Velocity of Detonation | |
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| Classification of Explosives | |
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| Ignition, Initiation and Thermal Decomposition | |
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| Ignition | |
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| Hotspots | |
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| Mechanisms for the Formation of Hotspots | |
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| Ignition by Impact and Friction | |
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| Friction | |
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| Impact | |
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| Classification of Explosives | |
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| Initiation Techniques | |
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| Explosive Train | |
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| Detonators | |
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| Igniters | |
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| Thermal Decomposition | |
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| Thermochemistry of Explosives | |
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| Oxygen Balance | |
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| Decomposition Reactions | |
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| Kistiakowsky�Wilson Rules | |
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| Modified Kistiakowsky-Wilson Rules | |
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| Springall Roberts Rules | |
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| Heats of Formation | |
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| Heat of Explosion | |
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| Effect of Oxygen Balance | |
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| Volume of Gaseous Products of Explosion | |
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| Explosive Power, Power Index and TNT Equivalence | |
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| Temperature of Chemical Explosion | |
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| Mixed Explosive Compositions | |
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| Atomic Composition of the Explosive Mixture | |
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| Oxygen Balance | |
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| Decomposition Reaction | |
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| Heat of Explosion | |
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| Volume of Gaseous Products | |
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| Energized Explosives | |
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| Addition of Aluminium | |
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| Force and Pressure of Explosion | |
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| Equilibria and Kinetics of Explosive Reactions | |
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| Equilibria | |
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| Products of Decomposition | |
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| The Water-Gas Equilibrium | |
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| Heat of Explosion | |
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| Temperature of Explosion | |
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| Kinetics of Explosive Reactions | |
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| Activation Energy | |
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| Rate of Reaction | |
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| Kinetics of Thermal Decomposition | |
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| Measurement of Kinetic Parameters | |
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| Differential Thermal Analysis | |
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| Thermogravimetric Analysis | |
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| Differential Scanning Calorimetry | |
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| Manufacture of Explosives | |
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| Nitration | |
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| C-Nitration | |
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| Picric Acid | |
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| Tetryl | |
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| TNT (2,4,6-Trinitrotoluene) | |
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| TATB (1,3,5-Triamino-2,4,6-trinitrobenZone) | |
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| HNS (Hexanitrostilbene) | |
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| O-Nitration | |
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| Nitroglycerine | |
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| Nitrocellulose | |
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| PETN (Pentaerythritol tetranitrate) | |
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| N-Nitration | |
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| RDX (Cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine) | |
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| HMX (Cyclotetramethylenetetranitramine) | |
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| Nitroguanidine | |
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| Ammonium Nitrate | |
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| Primary Explosives | |
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| Lead Azide | |
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| Mercury Fulminate | |
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| Tetrazene | |
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| Commercial Explosive Compositions | |
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| Ammonium Nitrate | |
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| Ammonium Nitrate Slurries | |
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| Ammonium Nitrate Emulsion Slurries | |
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| Dynamite | |
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| Military Explosive Compositions | |
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| Casting | |
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| Pressing | |
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| Ram and Screw Extrusion | |
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| Introduction to Propellants and Pyrotechnics | |
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| Introduction to Propellants | |
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| Gun Propellants | |
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| Performance | |
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| Composition | |
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| Single-base Propellants | |
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| Double-base Propellants | |
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| Triple-base Propellants | |
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| Propellant Additives | |
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| High Energy Propellants | |
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| Liquid Propellants | |
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| Composite Propellants | |
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| Rocket Propellants | |
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| Performance | |
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| Composition | |
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| Double-base Propellants | |
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| Composite Propellants | |
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| Liquid Propellants | |
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| Gas-generating Propellants | |
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| Introduction to Pyrotechnics | |
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| Heat-producing Pyrotechnics | |
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| Primers and First Fires | |
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| Heat-generating Devices | |
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| Delay Compositions | |
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| Smoke-generating Compositions | |
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| Light-generating Compositions | |
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| Coloured Light | |
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| White Light | |
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| Noise-generating Pyrotechnics | |
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| Bang | |
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| Whistle | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Subject Index | |