Melt explosion atomization

The aluminium-solvent slurry produced by metal atom/solvent co-condensation at — 196°C is so reactive that oxygen is abstracted from the solvent ether as the mixture is allowed to melt. Hydrocarbon solvents are more suitable (but halocarbon solvents would react explosively). 

Nine explosives and propellants were subjected to a transient burst of about 1 msec duration which resulted from fission of about 10 atoms of [62]. The materials were tested with 3.6-g samples of TATB, DATE, TACOT, HNS, lead styphnate, black powder, and three composite propellants. The lead styphnate sample detonated, but since the samples were hurled 500 ft by the nuclear excursion there was some question whether this resulted from impact rather than irradiation. The melting point was lowered from 216 to 208°C and the 5-sec explosion temperature (Table XI) was lowered from 299 to 268°C. None of the other materials tested showed evidence of gross radiation damage. 

Nitro-l-propanol is a highly explosive colorless liquid with an aromatic odor, melting point of -21.4 °C, boiling point of 103 °C, refractive index of 1.465420. It is soluble in ether, but insoluble in water. It has five hydrogen bond acceptors, topological molecular polar surface area of 112, heavy atom number of 10, rotatable bond number of one, the number of hydrogen bond donor of 1, and the number of covalent bond units of one. 

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