High speed imaging of TATB- and HMX-based energetic material decomposition in molten salts

Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 19-25

  Pantoya, Michelle L ^a   Shaw, Benjamin D ^a   Megas, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATES; DECOMPOSITION; EUTECTICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MOLTEN MATERIALS; SALTS; TEMPERATURE;

OCTAHYDROTETRANITROTETRAZOCINE; TRIAMINOTRINITROBENZENE;

EXPLOSIVES;

EID: 0033889467     PISSN: 07213115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-4087(200001)25:1<19::AID-PREP19>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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