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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
3: Combustion, Deflagration and Detonation
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Published:07 Mar 2022
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Product Type: Textbooks
Page range:
64 - 76
Citation
The Chemistry of Explosives, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 4th edn, 2022, pp. 64-76.
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The theory of combustion, deflagration and detonation is introduced together with the effect of pressure and density on the burning rate. In order to understand the basic concepts of detonation a simplified qualitative version of the detonation process is described.
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