Following the San Francisco explosion, the California legislature banned the transport of liquid nitroglycerin, forcing Central Pacific workers to exclusively use black powder as their only blasting agent.

Explosive materials can cause serious injury to human life and extraordinary damage to property if not handled properly. Making, possessing or transporting explosives is illegal under California Health & Safety Code Section 12085 HSC and violation of this statute can lead to serious criminal penalties.

He called it dynamite after the Greek word for power, dynamis. TNT, in contrast to nitroglycerin, is very difficult to detonate. So, in short: Don’t say “TNT” when you mean “dynamite.” Nitroglycerin and TNT (2,4,6-trinitrotoluene) are two different chemicals.

Cotton said an explosive called Tannerite, a trademarked name, was detonated shortly before 8 p.m. in the area near where Germantown Road crosses Moravian Creek. He noted that one package of Tannerite creates an explosion equal to that from a little less than one stick of dynamite.

Even though the diatomaceous earth takes away some of the dangers of nitroglycerin, there are still problems because the mixture is not stable in damp environments. Water causes the nitroglycerin to leak away. The nitroglycerin can build up, and explode unexpectedly.

An Explosive Combination of Atoms Nitroglycerin is an oily, colourless liquid, but also a high explosive that is so unstable that the slightest jolt, impact or friction can cause it to spontaneously detonate. It is the speed of the decomposition reaction which makes nitroglycerin such a violent explosive.

High explosives are materials that are characterized by a very high rate of reaction, high pressure development, and the presence of a detonation wave.

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The Composition C-4 used by the United States Armed Forces contains 91% RDX (“Research Department Explosive”, an explosive nitroamine), bound by a mixture of 5.3% dioctyl sebacate (DOS) or dioctyl adipate (DOA) as the plasticizer (to increase the plasticity of the explosive), thickened with 2.1% polyisobutylene (PIB, a …

High explosives tend to have the oxygen, carbon and hydrogen contained in one organic molecule, and less sensitive explosives like ANFO are combinations of fuel (carbon and hydrogen fuel oil) and ammonium nitrate.

Azidoazide azide

Explosions occur directly in pieces of technological equipment during milling, drying, pneumatic or mechanical transport, storage and filtration, and they usually have fatal consequences. Unfortunately organic substance explosion do not only destroy the equipment, they also often kill.

Here are five of these non-nuclear chemicals which all explode via the rapid release of gas.

• 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.

Azidoazide azide is the most explosive chemical compound ever created. It is part of a class of chemicals known as high-nitrogen energetic materials, and it gets its “bang” from the 14 nitrogen atoms that compose it in a loosely bound state. This material is both highly reactive and highly explosive.

An explosion is caused by a rapid expansion of gas from a chemical reaction or an incendiary device. Signs of an explosion may be a very loud sound or a series of noises and vibrations, fire, heat, smoke, falling glass or debris.

Discovered in 1881 by French scientists, detonation is the result of a supersonic wave initiating a secondary explosion. Explosion, on the other hand, is a general term for an accelerated release of energy generating extreme temperatures, releasing of gases and expanding volume.

The transition from combustion to explosion is caused by an acceleration of the reaction, induced either by a rise in temperature or by increasing lengths of the reaction chain. The first is called thermal explosion, and the second is called chain explosion.

Gas explosions can either deflagrate or detonate based on confinement; detonation velocities are generally around 1600 m/s to 1800 m/s but can be as high as 3000 m/s. Solid explosives often have detonation velocities ranging beyond 4000 m/s to 10300 m/s.

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The main direct, primary effect to humans from an explosion is the sudden increase in pressure that occurs as a blast wave passes. It can cause injury to pressure- sensitive human organs, such as ears and lungs.

The explosion effects for external (out door) explosions include air blast characteristics of peak overpressure, positive phase impulse, time of arrival, and positive phase duration. Other effects include thermal effects, projectiles (fragments, debris, and missiles), ground shock, and cratering.

The two major types of explosions are mechanical and chemical and are differentiated by the source and mechanism that produce them.

Unfortunately, most explosions are very dangerous and should be done only by experts. However, there are some types of simple explosions that can be replicated and observed on a much smaller scale.