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Rack-a-Rock

Accdg to Perez Ara (Ref 7), explosivo de Divine, " Rack-a-rock o "Break-hills" was in the form of a paste consisting of K chlorate 23.5 and NB 76.5%. It was prepd just before use and loaded into paraffined paper cartridges... [Pg.419]

Gody (Ref 3, p576) listed as " expiosif Divine" (1895) a mixture of DNB, DNT Pb nitrate, w/o giving their percentages. He also listed (p265) under Divine Rack-a-rocks" several different compns, such as a) K chlorate 75-80 NB 25-20% b) K chlorate 78 and a mixture of tar oil with CC14 22% and c) K chlorate 80.5, NB 18.0 sulfur 1.5%... [Pg.419]

Divine s Explosive Rack-a-Rock. See Divine s Explosives in this Vol... [Pg.635]

Bolton,Fa(Sir). Proposed to chge cartridges made of cloth, with powdK nitrate(or other nitrate or chlorate) and to soak them, just before use, in liq nitrobenz or in a resin soln, molasses, etc. This compn and the process of mixing, in situ, are similar to that used in blasting expl Rack a Rock (qv)... [Pg.221]

Many of these mixts are known and were used in Europe, since 1850 s. Some of them, such as Cheddites, are still in use. Some of these expls, such as Rack-a-Rock, Rendrock Vigorites were used in the US, but as far as is known, chlorate expls are not used now in the US, being replaced either by AN or perchlorate mixts... [Pg.597]

The same expl was prepd with nitronaphtha-lene, which was less expensive than NB. A subsequent Rack-a-rock Special expl formulation consisted of Rack-a-rock in which the NB was wholly or partially replaced by dead oil (a mixt of coal-tar hydrocarbons), and to this was added from 12 to 16% PA Refs 1) Marshall 1 (1917), 379 2) Ramsey... [Pg.25]

Rompe-roca. A Cuban expl similar in compn to Rack-a-rock (qv)... [Pg.203]

A similar type expl was used in 1885 for blasting out Hell Gate Channel at the entrance of New York Harbor (see under Rack-a-rock in this Vol, Rl-Lto Rl-R)... [Pg.433]

Uses In combination with tetranitromethane.10 See Indurite, Double-Base Powders, Sprengel Explosives, Belhte, Rack-a-Rock. [Pg.106]

HellhpfQte ) (Oxonite), Pi (Panclastite), PI3 feometiSS R1 (Rack-a-rock) and SI6 (Sprengel Explosives) 6) Fedoroff Clift 4 (1946), 35 (Fielder Explosive) and 49 (Kirsanov Explosive) 7) Guia, Trattato VI (1) (1959), 402 (Hellhoffite), 403 (Panclastiti), 397 (Pro-meteo) and 393 (Rack-a-rock) 8) R. Meyer, Explosives , Verlag Chemie, NY (1977), 246... [Pg.434]

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See also in sourсe #XX -- [ Pg.354 ]



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