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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 1978
Filed:
Oct. 01, 1976
Applicant:
Inventor:
Carl Boyars, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C06B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
71 59 ; 149 46 ; 149 61 ; 1491088 ; 149-2 ; 423396 ;
Abstract
The danger of the accidental detonation of large masses of commercial ammum nitrate during handling and storage under normal climatic conditions is reduced by replacing the ammonium nitrate with a solid solution of potassium nitrate in form III ammonium nitrate wherein the potassium nitrate constitutes from more than zero to less than 50 weight percent of the solid solution.