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Unconventional Shaped Charges
Nice cone. How did you stamp it? Deep drawing?
25-9-2023 at 23:30
by: Microtek
Exotic Primaries - Complex Salts
Yes, I would simply measure out AN and MeOH. Isn't this setup unnecessarily complicated? I would jus ...
21-9-2023 at 04:54
by: Microtek
Chemistry behind RDX
If you manage to produce acetic anhydride by that method, I suggest you look at the patents by Lukas ...
14-9-2023 at 22:47
by: Microtek
Limitations of explosive molecules.
Obviously, there has to be a limit, but AFAIK, the 11 km/s limit is empirically based, and so can't ...
14-9-2023 at 00:22
by: Microtek
Preparation of nitrostarch

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Sounds like a much easier way than combustion analysis![/quote]

Certainly. But the acc ...
14-9-2023 at 00:04
by: Microtek
Sympathetic boosting of VoD?
Well, I've heard of the inverse design - a shell of high VOD explosive over a core of slower HE. IIR ...
13-9-2023 at 01:58
by: Microtek
Preparation of nitrostarch
You could also do a classical combustion analysis:

A sample of precisely known mass is mixed with ...
11-9-2023 at 23:25
by: Microtek
Nitration of Tetramethylene dinitroethane tetranitrate
Well, I'm talking about NEST-1. It's true that I made inositol hexanitrate many years ago, but I did ...
11-9-2023 at 00:28
by: Microtek
Nitration of Tetramethylene dinitroethane tetranitrate
Sensitivity of NEST-1 (the name the authors have given it) should be on par with PETN, not HMTD.
Wh ...
8-9-2023 at 00:55
by: Microtek
A powerful,unreported new primary explosive--NiCC
Well, from reading some more papers, it appears that at least magnesium (and probably other alkaline ...
7-9-2023 at 03:43
by: Microtek
TACP Hybrid Composites Based on Al/CuO -- High Performance
I think the energy outputs seem very low. CHNO HEs are usually around 5-7 kJ/g while flash mixtures ...
1-9-2023 at 23:55
by: Microtek
A powerful,unreported new primary explosive--NiCC
My procedure for preparing and testing energetics is not vulnerable to accidental or even spontaneou ...
29-8-2023 at 23:01
by: Microtek
A powerful,unreported new primary explosive--NiCC
OK, a new update:

The cobalt derivative CoCP seemed very promising at first. Low sensitivity (lik ...
29-8-2023 at 08:54
by: Microtek
ammonium organic salts to amines to amine salts
Amides aren't very strong bases, so they don't form stable salts.
26-8-2023 at 02:33
by: Microtek
What does brisance depend on besides detonation velocity?

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There is an active charge length "La". At L>La pulse does not grow.[/quote]


Preci ...
24-8-2023 at 23:15
by: Microtek
A powerful,unreported new primary explosive--NiCC
I made it from NaClO4, so I'm sure NH4ClO4 would work as well. As stated above, CuCP is a little les ...
24-8-2023 at 09:42
by: Microtek
What does brisance depend on besides detonation velocity?
OK, when I plug your post into the best translation software I can find, I get this:

"jerk is act ...
24-8-2023 at 09:30
by: Microtek
A powerful,unreported new primary explosive--NiCC
Quick update: I tried initiating RDX with CuCP. It failed at 10 mg but succeeded at 20 mg, so the mi ...
24-8-2023 at 00:14
by: Microtek
What does brisance depend on besides detonation velocity?

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In fact, the shorter the time, the higher the intensity[/quote]

This is true, but not ...
24-8-2023 at 00:08
by: Microtek
Method to make polybutylene for plasticizing my PETN!?
The post you are responding to is ten years old but apart from that, there are a number of variables ...
23-8-2023 at 23:59
by: Microtek
What does brisance depend on besides detonation velocity?
No, what you are describing here as "jerk" is, as far as I can tell, more akin to heaving power. Imp ...
23-8-2023 at 01:14
by: Microtek
New Klapötke patent for melt castable EM
From another Klapötke paper, it seems that nitration with pure nitric acid leads to only O-nitratio ...
21-8-2023 at 22:31
by: Microtek
What does brisance depend on besides detonation velocity?
Brisance itself is not super well defined. It is the ability of an explosive to shatter a hard targe ...
21-8-2023 at 03:32
by: Microtek
A powerful,unreported new primary explosive--NiCC
I did try the copper compound, it's the one I refer to as CuCP a couple of posts ago. It seems fine ...
18-8-2023 at 23:37
by: Microtek
A powerful,unreported new primary explosive--NiCC
CuCP DDTs about as well as NiCP or NAP; 10 mg is enough in light confinement. I have worked on testi ...
18-8-2023 at 08:34
by: Microtek
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