A pressurized vessel test to measure the minimum burning pressure of water-based explosives

Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 118-126

  Turcotte, Richard ^a   Lightfoot, Phillip D ^a   Badeen, Christopher M ^a   Yachon, Marie ^a   Jones, David E G ^c   Chan, Sek Kwan ^b  

^a Canadian Explosives Research Laboratory   (Canada)

^b Orica Canada Inc   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Ammonium Nitrate; Combustion; Commercial Explosives; Minimum Burning Pressure; Water Based Explosives

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; COMBUSTION; EMULSIONS; GELS; NITRATES; PRESSURE EFFECTS; PRESSURE VESSELS; WATER;

AMMONIUM NITRATE; COMMERCIAL EXPLOSIVES; MINIMUM BURNING PRESSURE (MBP); WATER-BASED EXPLOSIVES;

EXPLOSIVES;

EID: 25444438444     PISSN: 07213115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prep.200400093     Document Type: Article

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