Chemistry of Powder and Explosives
by Tenny Davis · first published 1972
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…Medford, Oregon public library when I was 10 years old. I was hooked on my first reading and would go on to read it several more times before I entered my teens. It was tied with Tenney L. Davis's The Chemistry of Powder and Explosives as my favorite non-fiction book. I started the Sciencemadness library [1] a long time ago, before the big book-scanning initiatives like Google Books started. The library still contains a large number…
on “Ignition: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (1972) [pdf]” ↗…of explosives and fireworks, from benchtop scale all the way up to industrial. No casual internet commentator need fear that they're exposing dangerous secrets. It is all out in the open already. The Chemistry Of Powder And Explosives by Tenney L. Davis https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206012 Pyrotechnics by George Weingart https://archive.org/details/Pyrotechnics_by_G._Weingart_2nd_... Military and Civilian Pyrotechnics…
on “Anvil Firing” ↗Yes. In fact you'll find the better ones on the shelves of technical libraries [1], both in the US and in other English-speaking countries. Introductory: The Chemistry of Powder and Explosives by Tenney L. Davis. Advanced: Chemistry and Technology of Explosives by Tadeusz Urbanski (English translation by M. Jurecki). Encyclopedic: Encyclopedia of Explosives and Related Items by Basil T.…
on “Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group” ↗…mechanical ignition. The mixtures don't burn fast enough to risk explosive effects unless ground very finely or strongly confined [1]. I had to photocopy the black powder and pyrotechnics sections of The Chemistry of Powder and Explosives from the library, but today you can find a full scan of that book (and much more) online. [1] You can also make more vigorous mixtures with potassium nitrate by using powdered metal fuels, but you're…
on “Anvil Firing” ↗