Liquid Explosives with Small Solid Particles

2 Liquid Explosives with Small Solid Particles [8] 

Suspension systems of sticky slurry and paste-like liquid explosives with solid particles, based on the dispersion of suspended solid particles, should belong to suspension or coarse multiphase systems in colloid chemistry. In these suspension systems, the main issue is its dynamic instability, because the density of the dispersed particles and the density of the dispersion medium are different (generally, the density particle is greater than that of the medium), settlement or floating can occur with the role of gravitational field to separate the system, resulting in unevenness in composition and density of liquid explosive. Stability is the ability to overcome the so-called sink-and-float separation of two-phase components, therefore, within a certain period of use, the composition and density of explosive and other physical parameters remained unchanged and its properties are stable and reliable. 

Additives Amount (%) Viscosity (n) Btisance (mm) Explosion velocity (m/s) Strength (mL) Detonation transmission distance (cm) 

However, the other two sluny and pasty explosives stabilize aluminum powder and RDX particles in the mixture system through dissolving polymer nitrocellulose (1—2 %) in nitroalkanes. 

Zhongyuan Lv (1986) Development and application of XJ-1 liquid explosives. Explos Mater 04 5-7 

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