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US 4,045,260 AGranted
Explosive nitramine slurry composition
AssigneeAE & CI Limited
InventorsDavid Gordon Preston Start, John Thomas Francis Fenwick
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Abstract
Slurry explosive compositions containing, as a sensitizing component, an effective amount of a water-soluble nitramine, for example methylnitramine. The nitramine may be in the form of a salt.
Claims15
An explosive slurry composition comprising a continuous phase and at least one nitramine sensitising component which is selected from the group consisting of
- a. a primary nitramine of the formula R--NH--NO.sub.2 wherein R represents a methyl, ethyl, propyl, isopropyl, butyl, isobutyl or tertbutyl group;
- b. a secondary nitramine of the formula ##STR3## wherein R.sub.1 represents a methyl and R.sub.2 represents methyl, ethyl, propyl or isopropyl group, or R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are ethyl groups;
- c. a primary dinitramine group of the formula ##STR4## wherein n is 1, 2, 3 or 4;
- and d. a salt of any of said nitramines or dinitramines wherein said composition contains 10-30% w/w of the nitramine sensitizing component.
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