Explosiveness (chemistry)

As explosiveness is known in the blasting and explosive customer the crushing capacity of the explosive . The explosive value according to Kast is the product of the charge density , specific energy and detonation speed (for explosives ) / burning rate (for pyrotechnic sentences ).

Highly explosive explosives include, for example, TNT , nitroglycerin , nitroglycol , hexogen , nitropenta , nitroguanidine , octogen or octanitrocubane . They detonate at a speed of up to 10,000 m / s.

Contaminated black powder, on the other hand, only explodes at approx. 400 m / s. Even so, handling black powder is riskier than most explosives, as it detonates more easily than many modern explosives, which can only be detonated with a primer .

Individual evidence

↑ Thomas M. Klapötke : Chemistry of the high-energy materials . Walter de Gruyter, 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-020745-3 , p. 27 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Glossary of Explosives (accessed April 20, 2020)
On explosions, artillery and explosives (accessed April 20, 2020)
NIPOLIT-Kampfmittel (I) (accessed April 20, 2020)
Explosives Systems (accessed April 20, 2020)
Accompanying analytical studies (accessed April 20, 2020)

[Klapoetke-1] Thomas M. Klapötke : Chemistry of the high-energy materials . Walter de Gruyter, 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-020745-3 , p. 27 ( limited preview in Google Book search).