Open AccessResearches on explosives. Part IV
Publication year - 1906
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society of london. series a, containing papers of a mathematical and physical character
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9150
pISSN - 0950-1207
DOI - 10.1098/rspa.1906.0073
Subject(s) - explosive material , square (algebra) , nitrocellulose , environmental science , forensic engineering , engineering , chemistry , mathematics , geometry , organic chemistry , biochemistry , membrane
In Part III of my “Researches on Explosives,” I gave the results of a very extensive series of experiments, the completion of which necessarily occupied a very long time, and the particular explosives with which I experimented were those with which artillerists in this country were familiar, and with which a considerable number of experiments had been made. These explosives were, first, the cordite of the Service, known as Mark I second, the modified cordite, known as M. D.; and third, the nitrocellulose, known as Rottweil R. R. The experiments made by myself extended, for all the above explosives, from densities of 0·05 to 0·45 or 0·50, and pressures of from 2·75 tons per square inch (419 atmospheres) to pressures of 60 tons per square inch (9145 atmospheres).