Primary Explosives

✍ Scribed by Robert Matyáš, Jiří Pachman (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 354
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is the first comprehensive overview of this topic. It serves as a single source for information about the properties, preparation, and uses of all relevant primary explosives. The first chapter provides background such as the basics of initiation and differences between requirements on primary explosives used in detonators and igniters. The authors then clarify the influence of physical characteristics on explosive properties, focusing on those properties required for primary explosives. Furthermore, the issue of sensitivity is discussed. All the chapters on particular groups of primary explosives are structured in the same way, including introduction, physical and chemical properties, explosive properties, preparation and documented use. The authors thoroughly verified all data and information. A unique feature of this book are original microscopic images of some explosives.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction to Initiating Substances....Pages 1-10
Explosive Properties of Primary Explosives....Pages 11-36
Fulminates....Pages 37-70
Azides....Pages 71-129
Salts of Polynitrophenols....Pages 131-155
Diazodinitrophenol....Pages 157-166
Salts of Benzofuroxan....Pages 167-185
Tetrazoles....Pages 187-226
Tetrazole Ring-Containing Complexes....Pages 227-254
Organic Peroxides....Pages 255-287
Nitrogen Halides....Pages 289-302
Acetylides....Pages 303-324
Other Substances....Pages 325-334
Back Matter....Pages 335-338

✦ Subjects

Physical Chemistry; Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering; Organic Chemistry