CONTENTS -- Chapter 1 -- Introduction to Explosives -- Development of Blackpowder -- Development of Nitroglycerine -- Development of Mercury Fulminate -- Development of Nitrocellulose -- Development of Dynamite -- Development of Ammonium Nitrate -- Development of Commercial Explosives -- Development of Permitted Explosives -- Development of ANFO and Slurry Explosives -- Development of Military Explosives -- Development of Picric Acid -- Development of Tetryl -- Development of TNT -- Development of Nitroguanidine -- Development of PETN -- Development of RDX and HMX -- Polymer Bonded Explosives -- Recent Developments -- Insensitive Munitions -- Pollution Prevention -- Chapter 2 -- Classification of Explosive Materials -- Explosions -- Atomic Explosions -- Physical Explosions -- Chemical Explosions -- Chemical Explosives -- Classification of Chemical Explosives -- Primary Explosives -- Secondary Explosives -- Propellants -- Chemical Data on Explosive Materials -- Primary Explosives -- Mercury Fulminate -- Lead Azide -- Lead Styphnate -- Silver Azide -- Tetrazene -- Secondary Explosives -- Nitroglycerine -- Nitrocellulose -- Picric Acid -- Tetryl -- TNT -- Nitroguanidine -- PETN -- RDX -- HMX -- TATB -- HNS -- NTO -- TNAZ -- Other Compounds used in Explosive Compositions -- Chapter 3 -- Combustion, Deflagration and Detonation -- Combustion -- Physical and Chemical Aspects of Combustion -- Combustion of Explosives and Propellants -- Deflagration -- Detonation -- Burning to Detonation -- Shock to Detonation -- Propagation of the Detonation Shockwave -- Effect of Density on the Velocity of Detonation -- Effect of Diameter of the Explosive Composition on the Velocity of Detonation -- Effect of Explosive Material on the Velocity of Detonation -- Classification of Explosives -- Chapter 4 -- Ignition, Initiation and Thermal Decomposition -- Ignition.

Hotspots -- Mechanisms for the Formation of Hotspots -- Ignition by Impact and Friction -- Friction -- Impact -- Classification of Explosives -- Initiation Techniques -- Explosive Train -- Detonators -- Igniters -- Thermal Decomposition -- Chapter 5 -- Thermochemistry of Explosives -- Oxygen Balance -- Decomposition Reactions -- Kistiakowsky-Wilson Rules -- Modified Kistiakowsky-Wilson Rules -- Springall Roberts Rules -- Heats of Formation -- Heat of Explosion -- Effect of Oxygen Balance -- Volume of Gaseous Products of Explosion -- Explosive Power and Power Index -- Temperature of Chemical Explosion -- Mixed Explosive Compositions -- Atomic Composition of the Explosive Mixture -- Oxygen Balance -- Decomposition Reaction -- Heat of Explosion -- Volume of Gaseous Products -- Energized Explosives -- Addition of Aluminium -- Force and Pressure of Explosion -- Chapter 6 -- Equilibria and Kinetics of Explosive Reactions -- Equilibria -- Products of Decomposition -- The Water-Gas Equilibrium -- Heat of Explosion -- Temperature of Explosion -- Kinetics of Explosive Reactions -- Activation Energy -- Rate of Reaction -- Kinetics of Thermal Decomposition -- Measurement of Kinetic Parameters -- Differential Thermal Analysis -- Thermogravimetric Analysis -- Differential Scanning Calorimetry -- Chapter 7 -- Manufacture of Explosives -- Nitration -- C-Nitration -- Picric Acid -- Tetryl -- TNT -- TATB -- HNS -- O-Nitration -- Nitroglycerine -- Nitrocellulose -- PETN -- N-Nitration -- RDX -- HMX -- Nitroguanidine -- Ammonium Nitrate -- Primary Explosives -- Lead Azide -- Mercury Fulminate -- Tetrazene -- Commercial Explosive Compositions -- Ammonium Nitrate -- Ammonium Nitrate Slurries -- Ammonium Nitrate Emulsion Slurries -- Dynamite -- Military Explosive Compositions -- Casting -- Pressing -- Ram and Screw Extrusion -- Chapter 8.

Introduction to Propellants and Pyrotechnics -- Introduction to Propellants -- Gun Propellants -- Performance -- Composition -- Single-base Propellants -- Double-base Propellants -- Triple-base Propellants -- Propellant Additives -- High Energy Propellants -- Liquid Propellants -- Composite Propellants -- Rocket Propellants -- Performance -- Composition -- Double-base Propellants -- Composite Propellants -- Liquid Propellants -- Gas-generating Propellants -- Introduction to Pyrotechnics -- Heat-producing Pyrotechnics -- Primers and First Fires -- Heat-generating Devices -- Delay Compositions -- Smoke-generating Compositions -- Light-generating Compositions -- Coloured Light -- White Light -- Noise-generating Pyrotechnics -- Bang -- Whistle -- Bibliography -- Subject Index.