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Kamisama
2008-06-01, 08:31
Anyone actually know of some 600+ or 1000+ university level books that actually cover the theory and chemistry behind explosives. I'm somewhat looking more toward a chemical approach, and then the physical outcome.

Is this stuff pretty much not made or banned?

This looks good, but it doesn't have a lot of pages:

Organic Chemistry of Explosives (Hardcover)
by Jai Prakash Agrawal (Author), Robert Hodgson (Author)

asilentbob
2008-06-01, 09:49
Tadeusz Urbanski

Kamisama
2008-06-01, 11:06
Urbański, Tadeusz. Chemistry and technology of explosives / by Tadeusz Urbanski. 1964


~ 600 pages+

There is more than one volume, though. So it would probably amount to 2400 pages worth of reading. That's pretty technical, and that's what I'm looking toward.

Anyone else have some ideas?

Mokothar
2008-06-01, 22:11
Yeah, "the chemistry of powder and explosives" is pretty good, entry level, easy to understand.
And pretty much what you're interested in, obviously

Chainhit
2008-06-04, 04:38
i can upload TCATOE vol 1-4 if you tell me where to do so
its technology not power

asilentbob
2008-06-04, 05:40
T. L. Davis did "The Chemistry of Powder and Explosives"... (COPAE)

Someone else did the technology one...

Chainhit
2008-06-05, 14:14
T. L. Davis did "The Chemistry of Powder and Explosives"... (COPAE)

Someone else did the technology one...

Urbanski wrote technology

I did not know there was a similar book with power in the title

wolfy_9005
2008-06-06, 18:06
urbanski is good vut all 4 books are like 110mb, so it depends what you want(urbanski goes into detail about the different synths. dunno bout the rest). might be useful

Capt Obvious
2008-06-07, 10:11
As information source, Fedoroff's Encyclopedia of Explosives and Related Items has a little bit of everything. Lots about theory and chemistry, but inconveniently. It is an encyclopedia for reference, not a textbook fer lernin the younguns. But it is more than just individual compositions and military applications. Sometimes it goes into more detail than other books for a specific topic of interest.

warweed12
2008-06-12, 07:35
just check the downloads section of www.warweed.com there are lots off ebooks there all 100% material :)

Extinct
2008-06-13, 19:45
Yeah, "the chemistry of powder and explosives" is pretty good, entry level, easy to understand.
And pretty much what you're interested in, obviously

I have this book and it seems to be mostly of historical value i.e. it covers alot of about the chemistry of explosives no longer in use, either because they were too dangerous for what they were intended or because there is something bigger or better these days. It has a bit of organic chem and chemical structures and that sort of thing which I dont know much about but I was able to take away alot otherwise.