F42D 5/04
Rendering explosive charges harmless
Official title: Rendering explosive charges harmless, e.g. destroying ammunition ({F42B39/14 and F42B39/20 take precedence } ; extracting primers, dismantling ammunition F42B33/04, F42B33/06 {; chemical deactivating of explosives C06B21/0091}); Rendering detonation of explosive charges harmless
F42D5/04 (Rendering explosive charges harmless) appears on 587 US grants and 498 published applications in this corpus.
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- Method for producing microporous objects with fiber, wire or foil core and microporous cellular objects129US 6,585,151 B1The Regents of the University of Michigan · 2003
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