It was invented by the Swedish chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel in Geesthacht and patented in 1867. Substantial quantities of the explosive have been stolen from industrial enterprises in the Czech and Slovak republics for sale on the black market. Depending on the remainder of the ingredients, slurries can be classified as either blasting agents or explosives.

It is more stable than dynamite, but can still suffer from "sweating". However, USACHPPM's Toxicology Directorate did a study to determine an Army Exposure Limit.

Consequently, thing tending to further lower theirdensity is to be avoided. It is further to be understood that the invention is not limited to the particular proportions recited, but that it includes within lts purview any composition coming within either the terms or the spirit of the appended claims. Pentolite is a mixture of equal parts of TNT and PETN. However, works of fiction still show people using dynamite.

HBX is a form of high explosive made from TNT, RDX, aluminum, lecithin, and wax. Reactive armor in tanks uses plastic explosives sandwiched between two plates of steel. It is crystalline and yellow or brownish, moisture-absorbing, insensitive to friction, but may be detonated by severe impact. The different cartridge strengths are obtained by varying the density and grain size of the ingredients. Tetrytol is a mixture of ~70% tetryl (2,4,6-trinitrophenyl-methylnitramine) and ~30% TNT (2,4,6-trinitrotoluene.

Thig obviously presents the possibility of preparing moist, soft, plastic masses of gelatin with less nitroglycerin than usual. Gelignite (/ ˈ dʒ ɛ l ɪ ɡ n aɪ t /), also known as blasting gelatin or simply jelly, is an explosive material consisting of collodion-cotton (a type of nitrocellulose or guncotton) dissolved in either nitroglycerine or nitroglycol and mixed with wood pulp and saltpetre (sodium nitrate or potassium nitrate).. 10 is the strongest, with 3.0 g. No. In other tests, Composition B (59.5% RDX, 39.5% TNT, 1% wax) demonstrated an exceedingly low self-heating temperature that ultimately results in a violent final reaction. No. High-velocity gelatin is very similar to straight gelatin except that it is slightly less dense, more sensitive to detonation, and always detonates near its rated Ammonia gelatin (special gelatin or gelatin extra) has a portion of the nitroglycerin and sodium nitrate replaced by ammonium nitrate. Since it has existed for such a short time, researchers conclude that they simply have yet to find its most dense crystalline form. Czech reporting suggested that the British authorities intend to run experiments on the explosive that is often used by Irish Republican Army terrorists-including the October 1993 destruction of a building in Belfast. The Anti-Personnel Obstacle Breaching System (APOBS) Detonating Cord Assembly consists of PBXN-8 explosive, silicone rubber, polyamide yarn type I and II, and composition A-5 explosive. Small Smart Bomb's size will allow future fighter and bomber aircraft to carry more weapons in their weapons bays. During and after World War II a number of new RDX-based explosives were developed, including Compositions C, C2, and eventually C3. script.setAttribute("src", "//www.npttech.com/advertising.js"); The detonation velocities of slurries, between i2,000 and 18,000 fps, vary with ingredients used, charge diameter, degree of confinement, and density.

The ideal high-energy explosive must balance different requirements. 11. An additional feature of novelty and advantage resides in the fact that by the present invention I can more readily prepare satisfactory explosives of the types mentioned, with a lower nitroglycerin content than heretofore.  A gelignite or gelatin dynamite may be looked upon as a honey comb of minute air particles surrounded by films of colloided nitro-cellulose. When the charge is detonated, the explosive is converted into compressed gas. The high density of barium nitrate gives baratol a density of at least 2.5. All Navy warhead filling activities in the TNT Plant ceased in early The major longer range improvements resulting were the Navy's development of HBX type explosives together with asphaltic, "hot melt" liners for bombs and other munitions. Their resistance to loss of aeration will also keep them most effective in use under conditions of hard tamping and high pressure, as in deep holes filled with water. Thus, more energy can be loaded into a given volume of borehole. The blast energy of Composition B is slightly higher than that of TNT. The specific explosive, Composition C, was 88.3% RDX and 11.7% non-oily, non-explosive plasticizer. In use, it is typically cut to shape for precision engineering charges.

Blasting gelatine was used to pierce the great St. Gothard Railway tunnel through rock so hard that without it the task could never have been accomplished. H-6 is a binary explosive that is a mixture of RDX, TNT, powered aluminum, and D-2 wax with calcium chloride added. Very Gelignite (), also known as blasting gelatin or simply jelly, is an explosive material consisting of collodion-cotton (a type of nitrocellulose or gun cotton) dissolved in either nitroglycerine or nitroglycol and mixed with wood pulp and saltpetre (sodium nitrate or potassium nitrate). Driven by its liquid propellant engine, the V-2 had a range of approximately 200 miles. A gelatinous explosive containing substantially spherical pellets of sodium nitrate.

My experience, derived from extended experimentation, has demonstrated that explosives prepared as described herein possess better keeping qualities, higher propagation sensitiveness, higher rates of detonation and greater softness and plasticity than explosives made with ordinary ground sodium nitrate, and that such explosives maybe more easily and economically manufactured, and may be made with a lower nitroglycerine content in the production of a good gelatinized mass, than has been possible by any method of manufacture heretofore practiced. While no longer used in newer gun projectiles, some older stocks may be found with Composition B main charges. It, is understood that the invention applies only to gelatinous ex losives, commonly nown as gelignites an gelatin dynamites. Slurry blasting agents require adequate priming with a high-velocity explosive to attain proper detonation velocities, and often require boosters of high explosive spaced along the borehole to as sure

6 for Gelignite, and No. Today, straight nitroglycerin dynamite consists of nitroglycerin, with sodium nitrate, antacid, carbonaceous When cast, it has a specific gratity of 1.65 and a confined detonation velocity of 24,000 to 25,000 fps. Many attempts have been made to use dynamite in guns; and the Americans at one time built some huge air guns for the purpose of firing large shells, or rather aerial torpedoes, charged with dynamite. The Quick Trick: If it's a white powder found in sticks, it's dynamite. Although other PBXs have since been successfully formulated for a wide range of applications, only a handful have displayed the combination of adequate energy content, mechanical properties, sensitivity, and chemical stability required for stockpile nuclear weapons. Blasting gelatin is a rubber-textured explosive made by adding nitrocellulose (guncotton) to nitroglycerin.

Czechoslovakia was among the world's chief arms exporters. Dynamite is still the product of choice for trenching applications, and as a cost-effective alternative to cast boosters.

Like low-density extras, semigelatin has a uniform weight strength (60 to 65 percent) with the cartridge strength varying with the density and grain size of the ingredients.

Straight gelatin is the equivalent of straight dynamite in the dynamite category and is manufactured in weight strengths of 20 to 90 percent with corresponding cartridge strengths of 30 to 80 percent. Cast pentolite is used as a primer and booster for blasting agents where its high detonation pressure assures efficient initiation of the blasting agent. Nobel did much more than merely invent dynamite; he also invented blasting gelatine, gelatine dynamite, and gelignite, both of the latter being better suited for rock blasting than pure dynamite. Neat TNT is thermally destabilized by the presence of RDX, either HRDX or IRDX, indicating that RDX is the trigger in the thermal decomposition process associated with Composition B (HRDX) and Composition B-3 (IRDX). They may be so small that all will pass a 100 mesh screen or as large as conditions of application render desirable. To blow up with dynamite or other high explosive.

Therefore there is no OSHA or ACGIH standard.

Broadly stated, the invention resides in the introduction of What I have chosen to call .pelleted sodium nitrate or pelleted potassium nitrate into the explosives concerned. It is readily detonated by Mercury Fulminate and other high explosives. Straight gelatin has been used in very hard rock or as a bottom HBX was developed during WWII that replaced the more shock-sensitive TORPEX used in depth bombs and torpedoes. By insufiicient stirring in of air during mixing over pressing in packing, or submission to a series of temperature changes, the explosives noted are known to deteriorate in the properties mentioned.

This tends toward easier packing into cartridges and greater conditions of softness and plasticity. They suspect these ill-defined RDX crystallites present at cook-off temperatures were the source of the reaction violence at cook-off. It was declared that the British had been able to handle it without incident for 2 years and that the risk was worth the advantage gained in its underwater power. To overcome this disadvantage, high-velocity gelatin has been developed. In some cases the useful work that is done is limited only by the energy content of the explosive composition, while in other cases the transfer of energy from the explosive composition to surrounding bodies is controlled to a large degree by the momentum or impulse released by the detonating explosive. Composition C-3 is 77% RDX, 3% tetryl, 4% TNT, 1% NC, 5% MNT (mononitrotoluol), and 10% DNT (dinitrotoluol). Comp A-3 explosives are made from RDX and wax. It had the appearance of green plasticine with a distinctive smell of almonds.

(figuratively) Anything exceptionally dangerous, exciting or wonderful. gives very poor water resistance and a better fume rating. Despite this and the export ban that had earlier been in place, Semtex continues to be smuggled across borders. The finished material is flexible and will absorb considerably more mechanical shock than conventional cast or pressed explosives. It may be white or buff, depending upon the color of the wax used to coat the powdered RDX.

It is so special and peculiar in form that even a casual observation would indicate that it could not be formed by any grinding treatment of coarse sodium nitrate, or by any of the established methods of preparing this salt for use in explosives. My invention further contemplates the in provision of gelignites and gelatin dynamites that are more easily and economically handled in manufacturing operations than has heretofore been possible. In weapon applications, computational models require experimental data to determine certain specific output parameters of H6 to predict various underwater blast scenarios. As with Composition B, Composition C is no longer being used as a gun projectile main charge. TORPEX is an explosive based on trinitrotoluene (TNT) that gave a greater blast than TNT, but was more sensitive. This is only for orientation; ratings may well be quite different at the present time. Secondary vs. See Wiktionary Terms of Use for details.

Compared with straight gelatin, ammonia gelatin has a somewhat lower detonation velocity, better fume qualities, and less water resistance, although it will fire efficiently even after standing in water for several days. Composition A is used by the military in land mines and 2.75 and 5 inch rockets. qualities, and is unsuitable for use underground or in poorly ventilated spaces.