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c .
Substitute Explosives
kmrnonium Hitrate DJ and DJ 1 were dry :ixtures of o0 - u 0
percent of arnoonium nitrate ,
10 -
20 percent trinitrotoluol , and
5 - 1 5 pe r c e nt l umi num ahi ch ṿe : e pa c lre d i nt o t he bou b c as e s
ac
. n pow de r f or m .
Th e f or me r ha ci be en f i l l e d i n t o c e me nt f r a ; -
mentation bornbs of the S Be 50 type durin ,
the fi rst year of the
war , whil e the latter had beer . used for the SC 250 of cuality III ,
_ wh i l e t hi s t yp e o f bo,nb wa s s t i l l be i n;. ; pr o duc e d .
Ano t h er hi ,
;h - r a de
a mmoni uiu ni t r a t e rni x t ur e i s 't h e "A" Arru oni um Ni t r a t e bornb , . rh i ch
a
g no t an any way reduceJ tle results produced by the small
f r a „r e nt a t i on bombs SD 1 a nd SD 3 a s we l l as t !Ze SD l OB r a de by us i n
special gre ,
y cast iron casin s .
The explosive mixtures employed for uroup b had a b out 30 percent
more and those in Group c about 0 percent less blast effect thaa
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th e norma l explosives in Group a .
I n t rie l on ;i t udi na l di r e c t i an o f bo mbs n d mi r . e s t he o ur e d an d
compressed ex :losive cliar es were usually reinforced by transmission
char es of trinitrotoluol or of tetraGiethyl ene trir .
itramine
( th e
latter in trichlorethylene bombs ) . Th ese superchar;es served to
t r a ns mi t t h e ex pl o s i o » f r or t h e .
f us e s box e s , e qui l ed wi t h pr e s s e d
trinitrophenole ,
to the rlain char e and to thus uaran tee a
full
detonation of the entire explosive charae .
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