physical forms and fabrication methods are grouped together in several use forms of explosives. Explosives are sometimes used in their pure forms, but most...

of an EFP can generate a number of distinct projectile forms, depending on the shape of the plate and how the explosive is detonated. An EFP's penetration...

when water filled and explosively fired, produced a complete hull-form. Other uses of explosives for manufacturing take advantage of the shaped charge effect...

common variety of the plastic explosive family known as Composition C, which uses RDX as its explosive agent. C-4 is composed of explosives, plastic binder...

Plastic explosive is a soft and hand-moldable solid form of explosive material. Within the field of explosives engineering, plastic explosives are also...

Polymer-bonded explosives, also called PBX or plastic-bonded explosives, are explosive materials in which explosive powder is bound together in a matrix using small...

form of chemical explosives, and by 1161, the Chinese were using explosives for the first time in warfare. The Chinese would incorporate explosives fired...

detonation (VoD), which are in the range from 5 to 9 km/s. The use of the low- and high-speed explosives again results in a spherical converging detonation wave...

of conventional military explosives, such as an artillery shell, attached to a detonating mechanism. IEDs are commonly used as roadside bombs, or homemade...

and 2.0% Cab-o-sil. Rubberized explosives Cooper, Paul W. (1996). "Chapter 4: Use forms of explosives". Explosives Engineering. New York: Wiley-VCH...

packaged forms. By design there are low explosives and high explosives made such that the low explosives are highly sensitive (i.e. their Figure of Insensitivity...

or shock. Until about 2015, explosives detectors were not set to detect non-nitrogenous explosives, as most explosives used preceding 2015 were nitrogen-based...

often used in mixtures with other explosives and plasticizers or phlegmatizers (desensitizers); it is the explosive agent in C-4 plastic explosive and a...

properties of an explosive (e.g. when munitions are filled in factories.) Trinitrotoluene can itself be used to phlegmatize more sensitive explosives such as...

industrial explosive which accounts for 80% of explosives used in North America; similar formulations have been used in improvised explosive devices. Many...

Explosives safety refers to the practices taken during the use of explosives to prevent injury or death. Explosives include chemicals such as TNT or dynamite...

than other azides, it is explosive. It is used in detonators to initiate secondary explosives. In a commercially usable form, it is a white to buff powder...

delivers an explosive shockwave that is sufficient to detonate the secondary, main, high-energy charge. Unlike C4 plastic explosive, not all explosives can be...

contact explosives have varying amounts of energy sensitivity, they are all much more sensitive relative to other kinds of explosives. Contact explosives are...

mixed with a plasticizer, PETN forms a plastic explosive. Along with RDX it is the main ingredient of Semtex. PETN is also used as a vasodilator drug to treat...

ATF Form 4473, is a seven-page form prescribed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) required in the United States of America...

nuclear explosives have occasionally been proposed. For example, nuclear pulse propulsion is a form of spacecraft propulsion that would use nuclear explosives...

explosives engineers study, research, and work on include: Development and characterization of new explosive materials in various forms Analysis of the...

construction in applications where its low cost and ease of use may outweigh the benefits of other explosives, such as water resistance, oxygen balance, higher...

materials to manufacture explosives for use in improvised explosive devices (IEDs).” The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives advises: "Persons...

other use forms, the applications for such forms would be unclear since they would largely undo the insensitivity of pure TATB. At a pressed density of 1...

nitramine explosives, as well as inorganic nitrate-based explosives. Other groups include chlorates and peroxides which are not nitro based explosives. Since...

Other terms used for the family of weapons are high-impulse thermobaric weapons, heat and pressure weapons, vacuum bombs, and fuel-air explosives (FAE). Demonstration...

wide-scale use as a more robust alternative to the traditional black powder explosives. It allows the use of nitroglycerine's favorable explosive properties...

an explosives certificate, issued by the local Chief Officer of Police, is required for possession of gelignite. Due to its widespread civilian use in...