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Dynamic Chemical Processes of Detonations: Underwater Explosion and Combustion Processes With the use of Water as an Oxidant

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

V. G. Slutsky
Affiliation:
Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 4 Kosygin Str., Moscow 117977, Russia, kinet@glas.apc.org
S. A. Tsyganov
Affiliation:
Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 4 Kosygin Str., Moscow 117977, Russia, kinet@glas.apc.org
E. S. Severin
Affiliation:
Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 4 Kosygin Str., Moscow 117977, Russia, kinet@glas.apc.org
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Abstract

The possibility of producing underwater unconfined explosions with the use of propylcarborane as a fuel and water as an oxidant was demonstrated experimentally. The specific TNT equivalent of the energy release in the explosion reaction between propylcarborane and water was found to be 1.5 times higher than conventional explosives. A possibility of organizing the combustion of initially unmixed propylcarborane and water was experimentally proven as well

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1996

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