Teledyne Mccormick Selph, an Operating Division of Teledyne Industries,

Teledyne Mccormick Selph

Charles D Forrest

A cap-sensitive slurry explosive capable of propagating a high order detonation in thin layers and which has a high degree of safety for a cap-sensitive explosive. The slurry consists of a superfine grained explosive, suspended in an energetic, but non-self-explosive liquid matrix and contains no liquid explosive ingredient. The slurry resists dispersion in a variety of liquids including water and crude oil. In the preferred embodiments the slurries include penetaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) in super fine particles, having an average particle size of 6.5 microns.

Super fine PETN thin layer slurry explosive

An apparatus to allow manufacture of fine particle PETN (penetaerythritol tetranitrate) having a sensitivity to propagate in thin layers in slurry and having a particle size which presents advantages in safety of handling and ability to obtain higher solids loading in slurries and flexible explosive binder systems due to a lower surface area, and a wider particle size distribution, compared to previous PETN of similar sensitivity to propagation in thin layers, i.e., as the major explosive ingredient in flexible sheet explosive formulations, and to propagation as a high velocity detonation in small core loads, i.e., 1 grain/ft., in mild detonating fuse, confined detonating fuse, and the like.

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Hollister, CA, United States of America

Charles D Forrest