Method for enhancing stability of high explosives, for purposes of transport or storage, and the stabilized high explosives

Patent · Tue Nov 26 00:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:6824070

Nutt, G L

This papent describes a method for suppressing the tendency of a porous solid high explosive to ignite and detonate. It comprises: filling substantially all the press of the solid high explosive material with a predetermined pore radius of at least 10[mu]m with a relatively inert, stable, pore filling material in liquid form, the pore filling being selected from gallium, rubidium-potassium eutectic, and Wood's metal; and solidifying the pore filling material in the pores of the explosive material.

• Assignee: Dept. of Energy, Washington, DC (United States)
• Patent Number(s): US 5067995; A
• Application Number: PPN: US 7-366715
• OSTI ID: 6824070
• Resource Relation: Patent File Date: 15 Jun 1989
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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