EXPLOSIVE COMPOSITION SUITABLE FOR CARTRIDGING IN PAPER AND ITS METHOD OF MANUFACTURE

• Main Authors: ZIMMERMANN, LEON MICHAEL, HALL, MARIE VALENTINE MICHEL, ZABALA, JUAN ANTONIO ANDRIO, OCEJO, AGUSTIN GONZALEZ, GOMEZ DE SEGURA, FERNANDO BEITIA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 11.06.2002
• Edition: 5
• Subjects: CHEMISTRY; EXPLOSIVES; EXPLOSIVES OR THERMIC COMPOSITIONS; MANUFACTURE THEREOF; MATCHES; METALLURGY; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS EXPLOSIVES

A watergel explosive composition contains an oxidises salt, a sensitiser, a thickener, a crosslinking agent, a fuel, and water. The sensitiser includes more than 50% by weight of one or more water soluble compounds of oxygen balance more positive than -150%, selected from salts of nitric, chloric and perchloric acid with acylic nitrogen bases, having no more thun two hydrogen atoms banded to the or each basic nitrogen atom and up to three carbon atoms per basic nitrogen atom, and the salts of nitric, chloric, and perchloric acid with a phenyl amine, and the water content being less than 10%, by mass, of the composition. A process for producing the watergel explosive composition is also disclosed.