Energetic Materials, Volume 13
Subtitle: Part 2. Detonation, Combustion (Theoretical and Computational Chemistry)
Contributors: P.A. Politzer (Editor); JS Murray (Editor)
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Published: November 21, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 474
ISBN-13: 9780444515193
Subjects: Explosives technology & pyrotechnics; Science; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; Crystallography; Engineering - Chemical & Biochemical; Mechanics - Dynamics - Thermodynamics; Science / Thermodynamics; Chemistry - General; Combustion; Explosives; Propellants; Thermodynamics
First sentence: A continuing major objective in the area of energetic materials is to achieve diminished sensitivity, i.e. to reduce vulnerability to detonation initiated by unintentional external stimuli; these can include, for example, impact, shock, heat, friction and electrostatic charge [1,2].