Scatter Charge

This charge is very effective as an ambush weapon against personnel on foot or in unarmored vehicles. It also may be used against communications equipment such as radar consoles or telephone switchboards. 

MATERIALS Metal fragments (nails, washers, bolts, nuts, etc.), rags, wire, tape, or string, container, primacord and/or blasting caps, plastic explosive or dynamite. 

Pack explosive densely into the bottom one fourth of the container. A tin can of about 1 gallon capacity is about ideal for most targets. The container should not be smaller than 1 quart but large diameter cardboard tubes or ordinary pails are satisfactory. 

Puncture a hole in the bottom center of the container large enough for the insertion of a blasting cap or primacord. If initiation is to be by primacord, the primacord should be inserted through the hole and a triple roll knot tied inside the container. The explosive should then be packed around the knot. 

If the charge is not to be used in the near future or may be subjected to rough handling, insert a sheet of heavy paper or cardboard over the explosive to keep it separated from the metal fragments to be added later. 

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For a heavy ambush the frag grenades may be interspersed with the scatter charge previously described, mortar shells, or with other improvised fragmentation charges. 

Note It has turned out that medium transmission is optimal for structure elucidation. Too strong reduction of the main beam favors ion losses due to scattering, charge exchange (M -i- N M + IST") or charge stripping processes (M -I- N -> + N" ) instead of delivering additional structural information. 

The complex counter ion formed on the surface of the molecular sieve possesses a scattered charge and large volume. This may be the reason for the absence of any stereospecificity in the product polymer desfttte tiie presence of heterogeneous polarized surface. 

This book deals with reactions only. However, other processes investigated by beam methods are relevant to reactive scattering. Non-reactive scattering in reactive systems provides valuable complementary information. So do studies at energies beyond those where new chemical bonds are formed. The reader is further referred to related experiments on inelastic scattering, charge transfer, dissociative charge transfer, and collision-induced dissociation. ... 

Ineiastic Scattering, Charge Density Measurements, and Binding Effects.—In... 

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