Comprehensive Parametric Design of Liquid Explosives

Neat solution-type liquid explosives are molecular mixture of all components with the best dispersion, mixing homogeneousness, and density consistency. Liquid explosives with suspended solid particles has the liquid primary explosive as the continuous media to form a sol-gel with the help of thickening agents, and their solid phase is suspended homogeneously in the system to form a mixture system. And the solid particles are surrounded by the liquid phase solution, and there are relatively ideal dispersion and uniformity of every component. Therefore, both of these two liquid explosive mixtures have sufficient explosion thermochemical reaction conditions, which makes almost aU chemical potentials of the explosive system can be released in the explosion reaction zone. And the calculation of liquid explosives with the dispersion of solid particles can be done according to the explosion property parameters of general explosive mixtures. 

Example 1 Calculate explosion parameters of liquid explosive with 72 % of nitric acid (mass concentration of 98 %) and 28 % of nitrobenzene. The explosive density is known to be 1.40 g/cm .  

Component Mass (100 g/g) The amount of material (mol) Ftnmarion enthalpy (J moC ) 

Let M = 100, then, these basic data as listed in Table 3.13 can be obtained according to the known conditions. 

The calculated values and the measured values of several liquid explosives are listed in Table 3.14. The experimental data of explosion pressure are rarely reported and the measured data are related to experimental methods with significantly large error, therefore, only the explosion velocity data are listed in the table for comparison. 

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