Agriculture grade ammonium nitrate as the basic ingredient of massive explosive charges

Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 685-690

  Zygmunt, Bogdan ^a   Buczkowski, Daniel ^b  

^a MILITARY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Ammonium nitrate; Binary explosives; Inert additive; Velocity of detonation

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM NITRATE; DETONATION VELOCITY; EXPLOSIVE CHARGES; EXPLOSIVE MIXTURES; INERT ADDITIVES; INORGANIC ADDITIVES; NITROMETHANE; PUBLIC SECURITY; SIMPLE TECHNOLOGY; TERRORIST ATTACKS; VELOCITY OF DETONATION;

AGRICULTURE; ALUMINUM; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; FUEL OILS;

EXPLOSIVES;

EID: 84871319742     PISSN: 07213115     EISSN: 15214087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prep.201100121     Document Type: Article

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