Process for reducing sensitivity in explosives

Details Process for reducing sensitivity in explosives Process for reducing sensitivity in explosives

1992-02-25

1994-01-18

Rosenbaum, Mark

Solid material comminution or disintegration

Processes

By utilizing kinetic energy of projected or suspended material

241 21, 241 23, 1491096, B02C 1912

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052794920

ABSTRACT:
A process for reducing the particle size of particulate crystalline energetic material such as HMX or RDX by slurrying the particulate energetic particles in an inert liquid wherein the liquid coats the surfaces of the particles and introducing the slurried energetic particles at a predetermined pressure into a Microfluidizer.RTM. high-pressure grinding chamber wherein high-pressure interparticle collision reduces the mean particle size of the energetic particles, thereby reducing the sensitivity of the energetic material.

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