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Lori A Nock

Horst G Adolph

Michael E Sitzmann

William M Koppes

Raafat H Guirguis

Harold W Sandusky

Alfred G Stern

Mary Hilker Sherlock

Wade Babcock

Donna M Cason-Smith

Compounded High Explosive Composites provide a novel family of low-cost explosives that exhibit anisotropic (directionally dependent, non-symmetric) sensitivity properties to replace current homogenous plastic bonded high explosives that are vulnerable to unwanted detonation from a variety of hazards and operating conditions. Anisotropic sensitivity behavior is largely achieved by manipulating the bulk property of critical diameter to fine-tune the compounded geometry of the explosive composite. As such, Compounded High Explosive Composites represent structural arrangements of small, spatially distributed, highly consolidated explosive units (pellets) arranged in a prescribed (but versatile) fashion in a motion and energy-dampening rubbery matrix. The compounded geometry and structural arrangement allows the explosive pellets to function cooperatively and detonate in an exemplary orientation, while ensuring the pellets do not cooperate in other directions to mitigate against known vulnerabilities and threats.

Compounded high explosive composites for impact mitigation

A process for preparing ammonium dinitramide by:

Process for preparing ammonium dinitramide

Dihydroxy-terminated copolyformals formed from

Copolyformals of 1,2-bis(2-hydroxyethyl)-1,2-dicarbadodecaborane and

Copolyformals of 1,2-bis(2-hydroxyethyl)-1,2-dicarbadodecaborane(12) and

Energetic dihydroxy-terminated copolyformals which are formed from formalyde and fluorodiol and nitrodiol comonomers where the fluorodiol is HOCH.sub.2 CF.sub.2 CF.sub.2 CF.sub.2 CF.sub.2 CH.sub.2 OH, HOCH.sub.2 CF.sub.2 CF.sub.2 CF.sub.2 CH.sub.2 OH, HOCH.sub.2 CF(CF.sub.3)OCF.sub.2 CF.sub.2 CF.sub.2 CH.sub.2 OH, HOCH.sub.2 CF.sub.2 OCF.sub.2 CF.sub.2 OCF.sub.2 CH.sub.2 OH, HOCH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 (CF.sub.2).sub.2 CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 OH, HOCH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 (CF.sub.2).sub.4 CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 OH, HOCH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 (CF.sub.2).sub.6 CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 OH, HOCH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 (CF.sub.2).sub.8 CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 OH, HOCH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 (CF.sub.2).sub.10 CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 OH, or mixtures thereof, and the nitro diol is HOCH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 N(NO.sub.2)CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 N(NO.sub.2)CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 OH, HOCH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 N(NO.sub.2)CH.sub.2 C(NO.sub.2).sub.2 CH.sub.2 N(NO.sub.2)CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 OH, HOCH.sub.2 C(NO.sub.2).sub.2 CH.sub.2 OCH.sub.2 OCH.sub.2 C(NO.sub.2).sub.2 CH.sub.2 OH, HOCH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 N(NO.sub.2)CH.sub.2 C(NO.sub.2).sub.2 CH.sub.2 OCH.sub.2 OCH.sub.2 OCH.sub.2 C(NO.sub.2).sub.2 CH.sub.2 N(NO.sub.2)CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 OH, or mixtures thereof.

Hydroxy-terminated copolyformals of fluorodiols with nitrodiols

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