The chemistry of powder and explosives : complete in one volume / by Tenney L. Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Tenney L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Explosives.

Fireworks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (440 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Picker Partners Publishing, [2016]

Summary:

The present volume contains in one binding the whole contents of Volume I, first published in May, 1941, and the whole contents of Volume II which was published in March, 1943. The book was primarily for chemists. The writing of it was commenced in order that a textbook might be available for the use of students in the course in powder and explosives which the author gave for about twenty years (nearly every year since the first World War) to fourth-year and graduate students of chemistry and of chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[...]The aim of the book has been to describe as clearly and interestingly as possible, and as fully as seemed profitable the modes of behavior, both physical and chemical, of explosive substances, whether these modes find practical application or not. Historical material has been included where it was thought that it contributed to this end, and has not been included elsewhere or for any other reason. It is a fact that a knowledge of the history of ideas, of persons, or of things produces something of the same sympathetic understanding of them that living with them and working with them does.-Print ed.

Contents:

Intro

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER I-PROPERTIES OF EXPLOSIVES

Definition

Classification of Explosives

A Complete Round of Ammunition

Propagation of Explosion

Detonating Fuse

Velocity of Detonation

The Munroe Effect

Sensitivity Tests

Tests of Explosive Power and Brisance

CHAPTER II-BLACK POWDER

Berthold Schwarz

Boerhaave on Black Powder

Greek Fire

Marcus Graecus

Roger Bacon

Development of Black Powder

Burning of Black Powder

Uses of Black Powder

Manufacture

Analysis

Blasting Powder

Ammonpulver

Other Related Propellent Explosives

CHAPTER III-PYROTECHNICS

Development of Pyrotechnic Mixtures

Colored Lights

Railway Fusees (Truck Signal Lights)

Scratch Mixture

Marine Signals

Parade Torches

Aluminum and Magnesium Flares

Lances

Picrate Compositions

Picrate Whistles

Non-Picrate Whistles

Rockets

Roman Candles

Stars

Gerbs

Fountains

Wheels

Saxons

Pinwheels

Mines

Comets and Meteors

Bombshells

Maroons

Toy Caps

Silver Torpedoes

Japanese Torpedoes

Globe Torpedoes

Railway Torpedoes

English Crackers or Grasshoppers

Chinese Firecrackers

Flash Cracker Composition

Wire Dips and Colored Fire Sticks

Pharaoh's Serpents

Black Non-Mercury Snakes

Smokes

CHAPTER IV-AROMATIC NITRO COMPOUNDS

Effect of Groups on Further Substitution

Utilization of Coal Tar

Effects of Substituents on Explosive Strength

Mono-and Di-Nitrobenzene

Trinitrobenzene

Nitration of Chlorobenzene

Trinitrotoluene (TNT, trotyl, tolite, triton, tritol, trilite, etc.)

Trinitroxylene (TNX)

Nitro Derivatives of Naphthalene

Hexanitrobiphenyl

Picric Acid (melinite, lyddite, pertite, shimose, etc.)

Ammonium Picrate

Guanidine Picrate

Trinitrocresol (cresylite).

Trinitroresorcinol (styphnic acid)

Trinitroanisol and Trinitrophenetol

Trinitroaniline (picramide)

Tetranitroaniline (TNA)

Tetryl (tetralite, pyronite)

"Ethyl Tetryl." 2,4,6-Trinitrophenylethylnitramine

"Butyl Tetryl." 2,4,6-Trinitrophenyl-n-butylnitramine

Hexanitrodiphenylamine

Hexanitrodiphenyl Sulfide

Hexanitrodiphenyl Sulfone

Hexanitro-oxanilide

Hexanitrocarbanilide

Hexanitroazobenzene

CHAPTER V-NITRIC ESTERS

Methyl Nitrate

Other Alkyl Nitrates

Nitroglycerin (Glyceryl trinitrate, NG)

Dinitroglycerin (Glyceryl dinitrate)

Mononitroglycerin (Glyceryl mononitrate)

Nitroglycide

Dinitrochlorohydrin (Glycerin chlorohydrin dinitrate)

Tetranitrodiglycerin (Diglycerin tetranitrate)

Nitroglycol (Ethylene glycol dinitrate, ethylene dinitrate)

Dinitrodiglycol (Diethylene glycol dinitrate)

Trinitrophenoxyethyl Nitrate

Nitration of Ethylene

Pentryl

Hexanitrodiphenylaminoethyl Nitrate

Trimethylene Glycol Dinitrate

Propylene Glycol Dinitrate (Methylglycol dinitrate, methylnitroglycol)

Butylene Glycol Dinitrate

Nitroerythrite (Erythritol tetranitrate)

Nitromannite (Mannitol hexanitrate)

Nitrodulcite (Dulcitol hexanitrate)

Nitrosorbite (Sorbitol hexanitrate)

Nitrated Sugar Mixtures

Nitroarabinose (l-Arabinose tetranitrate), C5H6O(ONO2)4

Nitroglucose (d-Glucose pentanitrate), C6H7O(ONO2)5

Nitromannose (d-Mannose pentanitrate), C6H7C(ONO2)5

Nitromaltose (Maltose octonitrate), Ci2H14O3(ONO2)8

Nitrolactose (Lactose octonitrate), C12H14O3(ONO2)8

Nitrosucrose (Sucrose octonitrate), C12H14O3(ONO)2

Other Nitrosugars

Early History of Nitrated Carbohydrates

Determination of Nitrogen

Nitrostarch

Utilization of Formaldehyde

Pentaerythrite Tetranitrate (PETN, penta, niperyth, penthrit)

Dipentaerythrite Hexanitrate (Dipenta).

Nitropentanone and Related Substances

CHAPTER VI-SMOKELESS POWDER

Bulk Powder

Early History of Colloided Powders

Classification of Colloided Nitrocellulose Powders

Manufacture of Single-Base Powder

Stabilizers

Transformations of Diphenylamine During Aging of Powder

Absorption of Moisture

Control of Rate of Burning

Gelatinizing Agents

Flashless Charges and Flashless Powder

Ball-Grain Powder

CHAPTER VII-DYNAMITE AND OTHER HIGH EXPLOSIVES

Invention of Dynamite

Invention of Ammonium Nitrate Explosives

Guhr Dynamite

Straight Dynamite

Blasting Gelatin

Gelatin Dynamite

Permissible Explosives

Sprengel Explosives

Liquid Oxygen Explosives

Chlorate and Perchlorate Explosives

Ammonium Nitrate Military Explosives

CHAPTER VIII-NITROAMINES AND RELATED SUBSTANCES

Nitroamide (Nitroamine)

Methylnitramine

Urea Nitrate

Nitrourea

Guanidine Nitrate

Nitroguanidine

Nitrosoguanidine

Ethylenedinitramine

Dinitrodimethyloxamide

Dinitrodimethylsulfamide

Cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine (Cyclonite, Hexogen, T4).

CHAPTER IX-PRIMARY EXPLOSIVES, DETONATORS, AND PRIMERS

Discovery of Fulminating Compounds

Mercury Fulminate

Silver Fulminate

Detonators

Testing of Detonators

Lead Azide

Silver Azide

Cyanuric Triazide

Trinitrotriazidobenzene

Nitrogen Sulfide

Lead Styphnate (Lead trinitroresorcinate)

Diazonium Salts

Diazodinitrophenol (DDNP, Dinol)

Tetracene

Hexamethylenetriperoxidediamine (HMTD)

Friction Primers

Percussion Primers.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781786258960

178625896X

OCLC:

974595567