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Unconventional Shaped Charges
Density is not the only factor that determines the effectiveness of a given liner material. In fact, ...
4-6-2010 at 11:02
by: Microtek
PETN synth
@Vlad:
When you use dilute nitric along with concentrated sulfuric you are generating concentrated ...
1-6-2010 at 00:45
by: Microtek
Martini glass SC?
In "Liners for Shaped Charges", Held uses a ranking of liner materials based on maximum jet speed ti ...
31-5-2010 at 00:59
by: Microtek
Easy nitric acid
This kind of method was discussed extensively at roguesci a few years ago. I used it myself at the t ...
26-5-2010 at 13:40
by: Microtek
Unconventional Shaped Charges
grndpndr: I don't think anyone was picking on you prior to that burst of foul language a few posts u ...
14-5-2010 at 10:44
by: Microtek
Beware eBay aluminum
If the Al powder is to be used for themite there is another way:

Use Al foil as is.
Determine ho ...
9-5-2010 at 23:57
by: Microtek
Unconventional Shaped Charges
Franklyn: This was exactly the point I was trying to get across; that the target material looks a lo ...
9-5-2010 at 23:29
by: Microtek
Unconventional Shaped Charges
I would say that those photos look very much like a block of cast iron that has fractured due to the ...
9-5-2010 at 09:30
by: Microtek
NG as Rocket Fuel
I have experimented quite a lot with ballistite typr propellants in the past, in an effort to develo ...
28-4-2010 at 00:26
by: Microtek
help make white fuming nitric acid.
I have never had problems condensing nitric acid in a vacuum distillation, using simple tapwater in ...
27-4-2010 at 01:50
by: Microtek
Thermite for melting steel
I saw a video once (on roguesci) where thermite with an added gas generating component (possibly bla ...
8-4-2010 at 13:25
by: Microtek
The Preparatory Manual of Explosives!
I've read and experimented with that patent (the one with refluxing toluene and HNO3 with hexanes/he ...
30-3-2010 at 06:36
by: Microtek
Detonation of erythritol tetranitrate (ETN) with heated aluminum
I tried a setup like that a few years ago. It wasn't a true EBW, but a piece of cardboard with a str ...
15-3-2010 at 01:15
by: Microtek
Detonation of erythritol tetranitrate (ETN) with heated aluminum
If this turns out to be a real and reliable way to induce detonation, I think you just missed out on ...
14-3-2010 at 13:55
by: Microtek
New Energetic Materials - Current Research
Then you need effective cooling. I made KDN via the sulfamic acid route some years ago, and the CaCl ...
12-3-2010 at 14:22
by: Microtek
Methyl Ethyl Ketone Peroxide
Just do a redox titration of the concentrated peroxide using a suitable indicator.
One possibility ...
29-11-2009 at 03:46
by: Microtek
RDX synthesis
HNO3 and P2O5 does not form N2O4 but rather N2O5, nitric anhydride. N2O5 is an excellent and fairly ...
13-11-2009 at 10:04
by: Microtek
New Energetic Materials - Current Research
I remember reading about this composition (50:50 RDX:W). IIRC, the authors were of the opinion that ...
13-11-2009 at 08:30
by: Microtek
Unconventional Shaped Charges
Regarding that new nitrate ester, the one that is castable and has about the same detonating propert ...
24-10-2009 at 12:53
by: Microtek
BLU-107 Durandal
As far as I know, the Durandal first penetrates the surface (the required kinetic energy being attai ...
30-9-2009 at 09:06
by: Microtek
nitroglycerin
Also, the zero oxygen balance of EGDN makes it less suitable for use as a propellant oxidizer (which ...
21-9-2009 at 03:17
by: Microtek
nitroglycerin
According to Urbanski, it should be safe enough to stir NG and water(vol 2, pg 55):

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An e ...
18-9-2009 at 05:04
by: Microtek
Sorguyl
Engager:
Is that a nitration method from litterature ? I have only ever seen TeNGU produced with t ...
7-7-2009 at 13:56
by: Microtek
HHTDD, ENTA, DAHA
Coincidentally, I'm working on synthesizing HHTDD at this very moment, although I'm using potassium ...
8-4-2009 at 11:18
by: Microtek
5-ATZ(5-Aminotetrazole), the nitrotetrazolate ion and friends
That octaazanaphthalene looks quite a lot like a reduced form of DTTO. If it happened to be even a m ...
2-4-2009 at 13:31
by: Microtek
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