Super-thermite

According to reports from Los Alamos National Laboratory (Son 2005) nanoaluminium powders with particle size as small as eight nanometres can be combined with metal oxides to make highly energetic explosives. Called super-thermite, the combined powders are said to increase the chemical reaction speed by a factor of a thousand because of its much larger surface area. 

Formulations based on nanoreactants also known as metastable intermolecular composites (abbreviated as MIC and pronounced as Mick , also referred to as super-thermites or nano-energetic mixtures) were first reported by U.S. Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and appear to be very attractive for a number of applications [103]. Some important MICs are illustrated here along with their properties. 

BM a2 - AN, TNT thermite brown pdr Super BM cava - compn not given BM 2 per galleria - based on inorg nitrates, org nitrocompds powdered Al shiny gray pdr... 

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