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The Chemistry of Explosives
By
Jacqueline Akhavan
Jacqueline Akhavan
Cranfield University, UK
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Paperback ISBN:
978-1-83916-446-0
EPUB ISBN:
978-1-83916-618-1
PDF ISBN:
978-1-83916-880-2
Product Type:
Textbooks
No. of Pages:
194
Publication date:
07 Mar 2022
Book Chapter
8: Introduction to Propellants and Pyrotechnics
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Published:07 Mar 2022
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Product Type: Textbooks
Page range:
166 - 182
Citation
The Chemistry of Explosives, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 4th edn, 2022, pp. 166-182.
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A very brief introduction to gun, rocket and gas generating propellants is presented. For gun propellants single, double, and triple-based compositions are described together with composite, liquid and high energy gun propellants. For rocket propellants details of liquid, composite, double-based compositions and green propellants are given. The second part of this chapter briefly introduces heat, smoke, light and noise generating pyrotechnics together with pyrotechnic delay compositions. Pyrotechnic countermeasures are briefly introduced.
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