Talk:Explosive material
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The categories given appear to overlap and be redundant: eg. High/low explosives and primary/secondary explosives. Can anyone clarify this?
- Clarified. Primary/secondary is correctly a classification by sensitivity, high/low is not, but rather by mode of explosion. -- Roger 00:00 23 Oct 2003 (UTC)
I have copied in a large chuk of relevant text from a U.S. navy public domain resource document, namely
- Fundamentals of Naval Weapons Systems, Chapter 12, by the Weapons and Systems Engineering Deptartment of the United States Naval Academy
It needs extensive editing and wikification.
tetryl listed as secondary explosive?
?? AFAIK tetryl is (was) used as a detonator -> primary explosive
more on tetryl
oops, commented too quickly - tetryl is listed under *both* [correctly] under primary explosives (linked to tetryl entry) and [incorrectly, I think] under secondary explosives
Rmhermen, I removed your addition of picric acid from the primary explosives section, because I don't believe it is correct. You will notice that it was already under the secondary explosives section (but not wikified,, which I have now done). Picric acid was one of the first explosives to be sufficiently insenstive to be used as a filling in armour piercing shells, so it's obviously not all that sensitive!! I am also rather skeptical of tetryl being under primaries; it is used commercially as a booster charge, which makes it a fairly sensitive secondary. It is not used as a detonator, but is often included as a boosting charge in detonators, on top of the actual primary. Securiger 22:56, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Hmmm... "Man sues for $10 million over exploding toilet"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8085008/?GT1=6657:
53-year-old claims he was severely burned in methane blast
The Associated Press Updated: 5:37 p.m. ET June 3, 2005
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - A man who says he was severely burned when a portable toilet exploded after he sat down and lit a cigarette is suing a general contractor and a coal company, accusing them of negligence.
Worthwhile adding here? - Ta bu shi da yu 06:29, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)