Toxicity from Explosions of Liquid Explosives

Liquid explosives are compounds, which have different oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon atom ratios. The detonation products have complex chemical ingredients, inorganic materials and organic products. Sample collection and data analysis of explosion products are different from that of air. The specific composition analysis 

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Some rocks can react with detonation products, and also act as the catalysts of second reactions. For example, coal can reduce the CO and CO2 of products. Iron oxide ore acts as the catalyst of CO oxidization to CO2. Sulfide ore reacts with detonation products to produce sulfur oxide and hydrogen sulfide. 

In the preliminary stage of explosion, the incomplete reactions are very common. The quenching or freezing impact of balance reaction deviates products from expected results, and produces a lot toxic gases, especially in composite explosives. In liquid explosives, addition of sensitizers with high reaction activities (such as nitroglycerine, hexagon, hydrazine nitrate, hydrazine perchlorate, aromatic explosives, etc.) helps to complete explosive reactions and reduce the production of toxic 

Whether the detonation reactions are complete or not is indirectly estimated from detonation parameters (e.g., detonation rate, brisance, etc.). If the processing time of trihydroxy methyl nitro methane is different, the measured brisance value is also different. 

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