What are examples of explosives?
Possessing, detonating, or otherwise maximum hazard; such as dynamite, nitroglycerin, picric acid, lead azide, fulminate of mercury, black powder, blasting caps, and detonating primers.
An explosion is a sudden violent burst of energy, for example one caused by a bomb.
6.3 Explosives
There are two major categories, high explosives and low explosives.
An explosive substance is a solid or liquid substance (or mixture of substances) which is in itself capable by chemical reaction of producing gas at such a temperature and pressure and at such a speed as to cause damage to the surroundings. Pyrotechnic substances are included even when they do not evolve gases.
There are three main types of explosions: chemical, mechanical and nuclear. Each type of explosion can be equally devastating and serious, causing unprecedented harm to the surrounding people, atmosphere and infrastructure.
- Greatest Explosions. Trinity nuclear test. ( ...
- Texas City Disaster. Ship #2 destroyed in second explosion in Houston, Texas, in 1947. ( ...
- Halifax Explosion. Soldiers engaged in rescue work after the explosion in Halifax, Canada, in 1917. ( ...
- Chernobyl. ...
- Trinity Blast. ...
- Tunguska Explosion. ...
- Mount Tambora. ...
- K-T Extinction Impact Event.
Nitro compounds are not explosive but stable compound.
An example of this is a firecracker, or a bow and arrow, or a rocket rising through the air toward space. These can be difficult to analyze if the number of fragments after the collision is more than about three or four; but nevertheless, the total momentum of the system before and after the explosion is identical.
- blasting and bulk explosives (explosives used for commercial blasting applications or for their manufacture); ...
- perforating explosives (intended for use in the oil and gas well industry); ...
- special-application explosives (high explosives used for other applications, including primary explosives).
The most important primary explosives are mercury fulminate, lead azide, lead trinitroresorcinate, silver azide, diazodinitrophenol, and tetrazene, which is used as an additive in primers.
What is the strongest explosive?
Nitroglycerine, discovered in 1846, still remains the most powerful explosive in practical use.
- TNT. One of the most commonly known explosive chemicals is trinitrotoluene, or TNT, which has featured extensively in video games and films. ...
- TATP. ...
- RDX. ...
- PETN. ...
- Aziroazide azide.
341.11 Class 1 Divisions
Division 1.1 consists of explosives that have a mass explosion hazard. Examples are black powder, nitroglycerine (desensitized), dynamite, most types of torpedoes, and mercury fulminate.