COMBUSTION OF EXPLOSIVES

DESCRIPTORS: *Explosives, *Combustion, *Physics, *Explosions, USSR, Textbooks, Ignition, Gases, Flames, Explosive gases, Detonation, Pressure, Theory, Fulminates, TNT, TETN, RDX, Tetryl, Powders, Benzenes, Nitro radicals, Organic azides. Identifiers: Gunpowder. Contents: Section 50: Basic characteristics of combustion processes of explosives; Combustion of gaseous explosive systems; and Combustion and chain ignition. Section 51: Theories of thermal and chain ignition of gases; The nonstationary theory of thermal expansion; Flammability limits; Catalytic effect of admixtures; and Steady and nonsteady chain reactions. Section 52: Combustion of gases; Theory of thermal flame propagation; and Zeldovich - Frank-Kamenetskii combustion theory. Section 53: Combustion of condensed explosive materials; and Belyaev-Zeldovich theory of combustion of condensed explosives. Section 54: Combustion of gunpowder; Effect of pressure; and Mechanism of combustion of nitrocellulose powders. Section 55: Transition from deflagration to detonation; and Mechanism of transition from deflagration to detonation in gas mixtures.