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A powerful,unreported new primary explosive--NiCC
Hmm, I don't think I can buy barium chlorate (or any other chlorate for that matter), but I can prep ...
10-10-2023 at 04:46
by: Microtek
Polyisobutylene plasticizer extraction
Silicone rubbers are nice for general pbx use, but xtx8004 doesn't remain moldable. Rather, it cures ...
10-10-2023 at 00:18
by: Microtek
Azides
If you use a similar sort of procedure to the one I wrote about in the ETN/PETN crystallization thre ...
7-10-2023 at 00:27
by: Microtek
Help: Can ETN/PETN 4:6 be poured safely in a vacuum vibration environment?
In engineering courses on risk assessment and management you learn that the burden of proof must be ...
5-10-2023 at 22:34
by: Microtek
A powerful,unreported new primary explosive--NiCC
I have tested ZnCP and found that it DDTs nicely when fired by fuse (and so presumably electric matc ...
5-10-2023 at 22:14
by: Microtek
Minimum difference between plastic explosives?
If yoy don't have access to a fast stirrer, you can just slow down the addition rate of the acetone ...
3-10-2023 at 23:45
by: Microtek
Minimum difference between plastic explosives?
Those are some hefty batch sizes. What do you do with all that PETN? Regarding precipitation of PETN ...
3-10-2023 at 12:57
by: Microtek
Minimum difference between plastic explosives?
@ Denny: Some of your friend's assertions are quite simply wrong. You can absolutely prepare plastiq ...
2-10-2023 at 03:05
by: Microtek
Help: Can ETN/PETN 4:6 be poured safely in a vacuum vibration environment?
It would be better if you did sensitivity tests on molten ETN in even smaller amounts (less than 1 g ...
27-9-2023 at 08:10
by: Microtek
Unconventional Shaped Charges
I can see why you need such large amounts of HE then. I think you should go for plasticized PETN rat ...
27-9-2023 at 02:51
by: Microtek
Help: Can ETN/PETN 4:6 be poured safely in a vacuum vibration environment?
Nevertheless, making assumptions regarding sensitive high explosives in large amounts is a good way ...
27-9-2023 at 02:42
by: Microtek
Help: Can ETN/PETN 4:6 be poured safely in a vacuum vibration environment?

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Therefore, the high sensitivity of ETN does not come from itself, but from the bubbles tr ...
26-9-2023 at 23:20
by: Microtek
Unconventional Shaped Charges
And some trumpet shaped cones as well I see. How big are they?
26-9-2023 at 21:58
by: Microtek
Help: Can ETN/PETN 4:6 be poured safely in a vacuum vibration environment?

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blow up my apartment
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Please don't work with that amount of very sensitive HE ...
25-9-2023 at 23:38
by: Microtek
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
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