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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 1993
Filed:
Dec. 06, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Malak E Yunan, Boonton Township, Morris County, NJ (US);
Assignee:
E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, DE (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C06B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
1022758 ; 149 198 ; 149 1992 ; 149 193 ;
Abstract
An improved plastic-bonded explosive composition which includes from 2 wt. % up to 30 wt. % of a nitrocellulose binder and comprises incorporating into the composition during preparation from about 0.0025 wt. % up to a value less than 2 wt. % of fibrillatable polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) and mixing the composition thoroughly and with sufficient shearing action whereby the PTFE fibrillates and becomes substantially uniformly distributed throughout the finished composition.