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| | Understanding Reaction Violence of High-Explosive |
 | | These tasks require an accurate determination of the new explosive's sensitivity characteristics and response to unplanned stimuli, such as impact, friction, electrostatic discharge, shock, and thermal insult, to ensure safety of personnel and materiel both in the laboratory and ultimately in the field. |
 | | However, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen high-energy explosive ingredients of military interest usually exhibit a direct performance/sensitivity relationship, where increased performance yields a proportional increase in overall sensitivity. |
 | | Since no crystalline RDX was present at temperatures above the self-heating temperature of the explosive mixture, the violence of the final reaction was dramatically reduced to a burning event. |
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