Talk:Relative effectiveness factor

message: Eric wrote:
This table is GREAT WORK. Thanks for the information. This data is huge!!!
Many people think that the velocity of detonation is only one, the most important parameter for each explosive, and determines its relative power of explosion. IT IS WRONG thinking!!!!
The heat of explosion (energy of explosion) is also not only one, the most important parameter (for example, in this table: for nitroglycerine r.e.=1.54, heat of explosion =6.1MJ/kg and for octogen r.e=1.70, energy=5.6-5.8MJ/kg – it is correct!!!)
This table is a compilation of all parameters, determined for each explosive, like:
#Heat of explosion (energy), temperature of explosion, volume of gasses and the quality (the concentration) at standard density
#Brisance, the pressure of explosion at standard density
#Trauzla test (ability to work) at standard density
#Standard density for the explosive, easy to obtain in safe way, the most common used of density (it is not density of crystals!!!)
#Velocity of detonation at standard density (this velocity always depend on density of explosives)
This compilation (analysis) of course is determined by practical, experimental tests in laboratory and by practical comparison between explosives (in safe way). Do not forget about that! This is not calculation!
Thanks for this useful assumption,
129.67.54.6 (talk) 20:27, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
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message: Surely the nuclear weapon ought to be at the other end of the table? 129.67.54.6 (talk) 20:27, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
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message: This article is wrong. There's a discrepancy between the statement of the first paragraph and the shown examples of relative effectiveness: weaker explosives
here have smaller values, but according to the first paragraph, they should have bigger values. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.92.113.200 (talk) 16:36, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
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message: Hi, I'm not an explosives chemist, but am curious to know how much energy in Joules per kg TNT yields. Is this not the fundamental measure of explosive power? Once one knows it for TNT, the RE becomes even more useful. Someone who is an authority in this area needs to add it ... with a reference, of course.
*For what purpose? If you are interested in that, I would suggest looking at the 'specific energies' of the explosives. Msjayhawk (talk) 02:40, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
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message: 194.29.130.244 has twice added "Chopin's Composition", so maybe it is real. Problems remain:
The term "Chopin's Composition" for explosives exists NOWHERE ELSE on the www, only this page. Therefore Citation needed.
I relinked the term to "Chopin (disambiguation)" instead of "Chopin": An explosive mixture certainly has no ties to musical composer Frédéric Chopin. -A876 (talk) 02:34, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Possible obscure jargon or fictional term "Chopin's Composition"

message: I believe Gelatine is Gelignite and should have a link there. The composition sounds about right, nitrocellulose dissolved into nitroglycerin and all other references to Gelatine I found outside of Wikipedia make it sound like an earlier form of Gelignite. 2605:6001:E384:8800:D40:11A6:33F6:C0B9 (talk) 18:44, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Question about Gelatine