GROWTH OF BURNING TO DETONATION IN LIQUIDS AND SOLIDS.
Abstract
The initiation and propagation of explosion in liquids and solids was studied with special reference to the role played by discontinuities in promoting sensitivity, and the deflagration, detonation transition. The electronic structures of a range of inorganic fulminates were determined, and it is concluded that while sodium, potassium and thallous fulminates are ionic, the mercury salt is covalent. The slow decomposition of various azides was shown to take place almost entirely at the surface and not at internal defects. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 1967
- Accession Number
- AD0667216
Entities
People
- F. P. Bowden
- John Edwin Field
- M. M. Chaudhri
- P. G. Fox
Organizations
- University of Cambridge