Eco-Friendly Production Processes and Explosives

Lead is present in most of the primary explosives and thus use of such primary explosives results in corresponding adverse environmental impact. Therefore, development of lead-free primary explosives is an important area of research. Several new explosives such as l,3,5-triazido-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene (TATNB) and 

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(1992) Energetic composites of cyclodextrin nitrate esters and nitrate ester plasticizers, US Patent 5,114,506. 

6 Taylor, G.W.C. (1975) Technical requirements and prospects for new primary explosives. Proc. Inti. Conf. on Research in Primary Explosives, vol. 3 of 3, ERDE, Waltham Abbey, Essex, UK, March 17-19, pp. 18/1-18/21. 

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