Sand test
The sand test is an American method for determining the working capacity of an explosive .
In the sand of a certain sieve fraction ( grain size ), a defined amount of explosives is made to explode . Then the amount of sand that passes through the next finer sieve is determined.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Josef Köhler, Rudolf Meyer, Axel Homburg: Explosivstoffe . Tenth, completely revised edition. John Wiley & Sons, 2012, ISBN 3-527-66007-0 , pp. 180 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).