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Title: Publications resulting from the fundamental research on explosives program

Abstract

The five-year Fundamental Research on Explosives Program at Los Alamos National Laboratory, begun in 1981, was the study of explosives behavior at a molecular level. The research team developed and tested a model of a simple explosive, liquid nitric oxide (NO), overcoming difficult problems to investigate its properties. Using recently developed high-speed technology, the authors conducted innovative experiments, such as those on high-density NO, on the molecular spectroscopy of shock-compressed materials, and on detonating liquid NO. They developed methods for calculating the thermodynamics of dense molecular systems and describing molecular-level chemistry. The team obtained theoretical and experimental equations of state for the products of detonating liquid NO and obtained the first coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy data in shock-compressed materials. The program created worldwide enthusiasm in detonation and shock wave physics and chemistry; the bibliography included in this report is the result of numerous requests for the results.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
661645
Report Number(s):
LA-13447-H
ON: DE98007272; TRN: AHC29814%%154
DOE Contract Number:  
W-7405-ENG-36
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Apr 1998
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
45 MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, WEAPONRY, AND NATIONAL DEFENSE; CHEMICAL EXPLOSIVES; NITRIC OXIDE; EXPLOSIONS; THERMODYNAMICS; CHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL REACTION YIELD; SPECTROSCOPY; EQUATIONS OF STATE; SHOCK WAVES; BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Citation Formats

Rivera, T. Publications resulting from the fundamental research on explosives program. United States: N. p., 1998. Web. doi:10.2172/661645.
Rivera, T. Publications resulting from the fundamental research on explosives program. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/661645
Rivera, T. 1998. "Publications resulting from the fundamental research on explosives program". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/661645. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/661645.
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abstractNote = {The five-year Fundamental Research on Explosives Program at Los Alamos National Laboratory, begun in 1981, was the study of explosives behavior at a molecular level. The research team developed and tested a model of a simple explosive, liquid nitric oxide (NO), overcoming difficult problems to investigate its properties. Using recently developed high-speed technology, the authors conducted innovative experiments, such as those on high-density NO, on the molecular spectroscopy of shock-compressed materials, and on detonating liquid NO. They developed methods for calculating the thermodynamics of dense molecular systems and describing molecular-level chemistry. The team obtained theoretical and experimental equations of state for the products of detonating liquid NO and obtained the first coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy data in shock-compressed materials. The program created worldwide enthusiasm in detonation and shock wave physics and chemistry; the bibliography included in this report is the result of numerous requests for the results.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1998},
month = {Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1998}
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