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US 4,331,080 AGranted
Composite high explosives for high energy blast applications
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsMartin M. West, Peter D. Zavitsanos
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AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsMartin M. West, Peter D. Zavitsanos
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A novel composite explosive comprised of conventional explosive material and a mixture of boron and at least one other metal is disclosed. The other metal must be capable of exothermically reacting with boron to produce intermetallic compound and an energy release of at least about 1.0 kcal/gm. In a preferred embodiment of the composite explosive, pellets of a stoichiometric mixture of boron and titanium are mixed with cyclotetramethylenetetranitramine (HMX). By mixing the boron and at least one other metal which forms an intermetallic compound with boron in an exothermic reaction wherein the heat energy release is at least about 1.0 kcal/gm and adding a conventional explosive material to the mixture, there is an improved method of forming a mass of hot or molten particles in an environment when the conventional explosive is detonated.
A composite explosive comprised of conventional explosive material and a mixture of boron and at least one other metal, the at least one other metal being a metal or metals which are capable of exothermically reacting with the boron to yield an intermetallic compound, the reaction of boron and the metal or metals being accompanied by a heat energy release of at least about 1.0 kcal/gm.
A composite explosive comprised of conventional explosive material and a mixture of metals which form an intermetallic compound upon detonation of the conventional explosive material, the mixture of metals comprising boron and at least one other metal selected from the group consisting of lithium, titanium, hafnium, zirconium, tantalum, uranium and mixtures thereof.
A method of improving the thermal energy release of metal in a conventional explosive material comprising adding the conventional explosive material to a mixture of boron and at least one other metal, the at least one other metal being a metal or metals which are capable of exothermically reacting with boron to yield an intermetallic compound, the reaction of boron and the metal or metals being accompanied by a heat energy release of at least about 1.0 kcal/gm.
A method of forming a mass of hot or molten particles in an environment, comprising:
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