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US 5,140,908 AGranted
Liquid explosive with initiator
AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
InventorJohn D. Sullivan, Jr.
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Abstract
An explosive composition of matter comprising nitromethane and picric acid. n a preferred embodiment of the invention commercially available picric acid containing up to 10 percent water by weight is added to the nitromethane up to saturation at room temperature.
Claims6
An explosive composition of matter comprising nitromethane and picric acid, and an initiator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.