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Subsequent to freeze stabilization, wet books can be thawed and air dried with or without interleaving or they can be vacuum dried in heated chambers (5). The moisture in frozen books can be sublimed by freeze drying (10) or removed by a vacuum/thaw/outgassing process (8), with microwave energy (6, 14), with dielectric energy (6), or by solvent extraction with or without vacuum assistance (5). 

Detonation in Slurry Explosives. Cook, in his book, pp 316-21, described under the heading "Water-Compatible Explosives properties of slurry explosives developed by M.A. Cook.St H.E. Farnam. These expls were intended for use in large diameter underwater blasting at Iron Ore Company of Canada s Knob Lake operation. The success of these expls brought out the importance of pressure and density on the products of detonation. Table 12.21 of Cook s book gave computed properties of three dry versus water soaked slurry mixtures at AN/TNT ratios of zero, 1.0 8c 3.25. It was of interest to note that the computed (dry basis) available energy A of the TNT in slurry with 27% water was 17% greater... 

Fuses Described in the Book of Fordham include Detonating Fuse Introduction (p 131) manuf by the dry process (pp 132—33 with Fig 12.1) manuf by the wet process (p 133) properties (p 134) LEDC (Low Energy Detonating Cord)... 

The successful application of either microwave or dielectric energy for drying requires that water, as it is evaporated, be removed from the paper and book. Air with low relative humidity is forced through the chamber to facilitate water vapor removal from the object. Since interaction of the water molecules at different locations in the chamber may not be uniform, each frozen flood-damaged item was inverted and partially rotated between each burst of energy. Radiation leakage from both types of equipment is possible therefore, special precautions for com-... 

The text of the frozen uncoated-paper research book was dried in the next experimental run with this oven. Eight 45-sec bursts of energy were required to remove the water from this lightly wetted 244.5-g text. The amount of water absorbed by this text during the simulated flood was small since it was in the tightly packed position (1). Its dry weight... 

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