When high explosives are subjected to sudden shock waves, such as from an impact or detonation, tiny regions of intense heat—called hot spots—form at microstructural defects such as pores. These hot ...
a For additional listings of explosives considered important in forensic investigations, see TWGFEX: The Technical Working Group for Fire and Explosions, http://www ...
Could a single regulatory gap leave tens of thousands of pounds of high explosives without a safety inspection? At Accurate Energetic Systems’ Building 602 in Humphreys County, Tennessee, that gap ...
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The characteristics of primary and secondary explosives are exploited in the design of the "explosive train." Briefly, the explosive train is an arrangement consisting of (1) a small quantity of ...