Magnesium flares

Research and Development of Flow-Cast Magnesium Flares , AFATL-TR-71-120 (1971) (AD-902122) 10a) Anon, EngrgDesHdbk,... [Pg.553]

Uses In primer compositions and in chlorate explosives. Also used to supply oxygen in aluminum and magnesium flares, smokes, stars, railway torpedoes. In combination with sulfur or antimony sulfide to produce a loud report (Maroons). As component of Per-missibles, Pu. [Pg.125]

The other armour-suited troops closed around their leader, and together they slipped off the road, back into the cover of the trees. Not that the snarled-up trunks of the old forest could hide them Ralph s fury acted like a magnesium flare to the strange senses which Moyo was only just accustoming himself to. [Pg.299]

The most ambitious and also least innocuous training devices are the ones which are meant to simulate an atomic bomb. The EX ModO Nuclear Air-Burst Simulator is an air-launched bomb weighing in excess of 500 lb and containing various flash, smoke, and sound charges. With a total of 300 lb of a modified magnesium flare mixture, red phosphorus, and high exPlosive, it produces an impressive fire ball and mushroom cloud. ... [Pg.120]

To Hans Bethe at Compania Hill it looked like a giant magnesium flare which kept on for what seemed a whole minute but was actually one or two seconds. ... [Pg.673]

An Interim Report on the Infra-Red Emission From Teflon-Magnesium Flares, Technical Memorandum No. [Pg.195]

In military aircraft the heat given off from decoy magnesium flares confuses the infrared detection systems in missiles so enemy fire cannot focus in and target the aircraft. [Pg.174]

MiHtary illuminating flares have been based for many years on the energetic reaction between sodium nitrate and magnesium metal. One of the primary reactions is equation 2. This high candlepower composition is blended with an... [Pg.350]

Magnesium metal burns in air, emitting enough light to be useful as a flare, and forming clouds of white smoke. Write the equation for the reaction. What is the composition of the smoke ... [Pg.106]

Example Feasible Region Determination and Rescaling. McLean and Anderson (9) described a mixture experiment in which magnesium (X ), sodium nitrate (X2), strontium nitrate (X3), and binder (X ) were combined and ignited to produce flares varying in intensity. The four components had the following ranges ... [Pg.60]

Webster, H. A. etal., Rept. AD-782510/2GA, Springfield (Va.), USNTIS, 1974 The use of mixtures with magnesium in pyrotechnic flares is discussed. [Pg.1714]

FIG. 7.1 Emission spectrum of a red flare. Emission is concentrated in the 600-700 nm region. The primary emitting species are SrCI and SrOH molecules in the vapor state. The composition of the flare was potassium perchlorate (20.5%), strontium nitrate (34.7%), magnesium (24.4%), polyvinylchloride (11.4%), and asphaltum (9.0%). Source H. A. Webster III, "Visible Spectra of Standard Navy Colored Flares," Proceedings, Explosives and Pyrotechnics Applications Section, American Defense Preparedness Association, Fort Worth, Texas, September, 1983. [Pg.91]

Magnesium average particle size. Flare candlepower micrometers (1,000 candles) Flare burning rate, inches/ minute... [Pg.158]

Flare, Magnesium. A general term indicating a flare using Mg as the illuminating agent Ref Glossary of Ordn (1959), 119-L... [Pg.455]

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