Military And Civilian Pyrotechnics

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ISBN-13/EAN: 9780820603643
Author: Dr. Herbert Ellern
Chemical Publishing
Book - Paperback
Pub Date: May 1, 1968
480 pages

Features
Written for manufacturers, laboratory pyrotechnicians, and lay students, this book contains an enormous amount of invaluable data on the properties and production of pyrotechnic materials, on heat and light production, on aerosols, energy, and noise.

Includes a manufacturing formulary, and a good reference section. Its wealth of information and highly readable style make it a ‘must have’ in every pyrotechnician’s library.

Table of Contents:

Foreword and Acknowledgments v
List of Tables and Figures xii

PART I-GENERAL OUTLINE
1. Definition and Scope 3
2. The Literature of Pyrotechnics 7

PART II-PRIMARY FLAME AND GLOW
3. General Remarks 17
4. Self-Igniting Hydrides and Their Uses 19
5. Self-Flammable Metal-Organic Compounds 23
6. White Phosphorus 26
7. Miscellaneous Pyrophoric Substances 28
8. Mechanically-Induced Pyrophoricity 34
9. Spontaneous Ignition of Common Materials 36
10. Self-Igniting Fuel-Oxidizer Systems 41
11. Primers 53
Note (Complex Salts) 61
12. Matches 64
Note (Water Vapor Transmission) 82

PART Ill-LIGHT
13. Underlying Phenomena 87
14. Production of White Light 99
15. Flash Charges 115
16. Colored Lights 122
17. Fireworks 131

PART IV-AEROSOLS (Smoke and Dispersed Agents)
18. Screening and Signaling Smokes 147
19. Dispersion of Chemical Agents 160

PART V-KINETIC ENERGY
20. Creation and Uses of Nonspecific Gases 167

PART VI-NOISE
2 I. Explosive and Whistling Sound 181

PART VII-HEAT PRODUCTION PER SE
22. Uses of Heat 187
23. First Fires and Igniters 189
24. Delay Trains 197
Note (Statistics) 213
25. Fire Starting and Fire Setting 216
26. Heating Devices 224
27. High-Temperature Flames 230

PART VIII-CHEMICAL PRODUCTION
28. Introduction 235
29. Gas Production 236
Note (Alkali Chlorates) 241
30. Solid Products 244

PART IX-BASIC BEHAVIOR AND PROPERTIES
OF MATERIALS
31. Introduction 253
32. Nonspecific Properties of Materials 255
33. Phase Changes 264
34. Caloric Output 273
35. Reactivity-Wanted and Unwanted 290
Note (Safety) 307
36. Binders and Other Accessory Materials 312

PART X-SPECIFIC MATERIALS
37. General Remarks 321
38. Sulfur, Selenium, Tellurium 322
39. Carbon and Carbonaceous Fuels 324
40. Boron and Silicon 326
41. Magnesium and Aluminum 328
42. Titanium and Zirconium 332
43. Halates and Perhalates 335
44. Nitrates 339
45. List of Government Specifications 341

PART XI-A FORMULARY OF PYROTECHNICS
46. Introduction 351
47. Formulas 353

PART XII-THE LANGUAGE OF PYROTECHNICS
48. On Style and Words 391
49. Glossary 393

PART XIII-AFTERMATH; AFTERTHOUGHTS
50. Aftermath 411
51. Afterthoughts 418
References 421
Index 457

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