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Question: Why does explosives have to contain such a high nitrogen density?
Many industrially important compounds, such as ammonia, nitric acid, organic nitrates (propellants and explosives), and cyanides, contain nitrogen.
Many industrially important compounds, such as ammonia, nitric acid, organic nitrates (propellants and explosives), and cyanides, contain nitrogen.
Many industrially important compounds, such as ammonia, nitric acid, organic nitrates (propellants and explosives), and cyanides, contain nitrogen.
Many industrially important compounds, such as ammonia, nitric acid, organic nitrates (propellants and explosives), and cyanides, contain nitrogen.
The principles by which other devices function are more or less based on the fact that all these explosives contain nitrogen compounds, often comprising 20-30% of the material’s total mass.
Since nitrogen compounds are good at storing energy, most conventional explosives contain nitrogen, a property that makes them relatively easy to detect.
Most high explosives contain carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen atoms and thus comparing their relative abundances of isotopes can reveal the existence of a common origin.
Most conventional high explosives contain nitro groups, but some improvised explosives contain no nitrogen at all;
Not all explosives contain a nitrogen base and, as a result, conventional trace detectors cannot identify them.
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