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Research and Development of High-performance Explosives
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Research and Development of High-performance Explosives

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The simplest method for calculating energy output and Gurney velocity of explosives

Mohammad Hossein Keshavarz1, Abolfazl Semnani

  • 1Department of Chemistry, Malek-ashtar University of Technology, Shahin-shahr, P.O. Box 83145/115, Iran. mhkir@Yahoo.com

Journal of Hazardous Materials
|October 21, 2005
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