Product Description

Outlines the basic principles needed to understand the mechanism of explosions by chemical explosive. The work introduces the history, theory and chemical types of explosives, and covers thermodynamics, enthalpy, free energy and gas equations. Propellants and pyrotechnics are briefly introduced.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2091762 in Books
• Published on: 1998-04-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

Customer Reviews

It is a fairly good introductory text.
This is a 173 page paper bound book published by the Royal Society of Chemistry and authored by Jacqueline Akhavan of Cranfield University, Royal Military College of Science, in the United Kingdom. The text partially fills a gap in the literature of explosives by providing more information on the chemistry of manufacturing and functioning of explosives. However, it still is more of a text about explosives than it is about the chemistry of explosives. In brief, it is a fairly good introductory text, but stops significantly short of being a great one....