Composition B (Comp B), also known as Hexotol and Hexolite (among others), is a high explosive consisting of castable mixtures of RDX and TNT. It is used...
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1940s the format "Composition <letter>" was used for various compositions of the (relatively) novel explosive RDX, such as Composition B and other variants...
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C-4 (explosive) (redirect from Composition 4)
C-4 or Composition C-4 is a common variety of the plastic explosive family known as Composition C, which uses RDX as its explosive agent. C-4 is composed...
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In mathematics, the composition operator ∘ {\displaystyle \circ } takes two functions, f {\displaystyle f} and g {\displaystyle g} , and returns a new...
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RDX (section Military compositions)
stearic acid). Composition B: Castable mixtures of 59.5% RDX and 39.4% TNT with 1% wax as desensitizer. Composition C: The original composition C was used...
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ignited and its powder train is almost silent while it burns down. Its Composition B filler was considered safer than the flaked or granular TNT filling...
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caused to target and contains a bulk-filled explosive (either TNT or Composition B). The projectile was developed to provide extended range for standard...
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compositions by Antonín Dvořák includes works sortable by Jarmil Burghauser catalogue number (B.), opus number (when applicable), date of composition...
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falls into the A to B alphabetic range. For others, see respective pages: List of compositions for viola: C to E List of compositions for viola: F to H...
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mines. It was eventually replaced with alternative explosives such as Composition B, Torpex, and Tritonal. Following the Shell Crisis of 1915 in which the...
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per cubic centimetre (0.060 to 0.061 lb/cu in), the density of the Composition B high-explosive versions. The filler of both variants had the same weight...
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TNT. It is related to the more common Composition B, which is roughly 60% RDX and 40% TNT; various compositions of Cyclotol contain from 65% to 80% RDX...
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In computer science, object composition and object aggregation are closely related ways to combine objects or data types into more complex ones. In conversation...
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explosive in the explosive lenses of some early atomic bomb designs, with Composition B often used as the fast-detonating component. Atomic bombs detonated...
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Metastaseis (Xenakis) (redirect from Metastasis (Xenakis composition))
into composition". These transformations include both the glissando mass events and the permutation of the tone rows.[verification needed] The "B" (beta)...
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75% Y mixture to temperature AB would generate vapor of composition B over liquid of composition A. The azeotrope is the point on the diagram where the...
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Baratol (barium nitrate and wax[citation needed]) Composition B (RDX and paraffin wax) Composition H6 Cyclotol (RDX) Ednatol Hexanite[citation needed]...
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easily. Typically, a small amount of phlegmatizing agent is used e.g. Composition B, which has 1% paraffin wax added, or the Russian RGO hand grenade which...
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The B-Sides is a symphony in five movements for electronica and orchestra by the American composer Mason Bates. The work was commissioned by the San Francisco...
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This is a list of compositions by jazz musician Thelonious Monk. Contents Top 0–9 A B C E F G H I J L M N O P R S T U W A contrafact based loosely on...
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IMX-101 (section Composition)
of 1.62 when compared to Composition B. OSX-12 is being studied as a replacement to PAX-28.[citation needed] Like Composition B, IMX formulations are melt-castable...
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number is the "work number" that is assigned to a musical composition, or to a set of compositions, to indicate the chronological order of the composer's...
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In mathematics, the composition operator C ϕ {\displaystyle C_{\phi }} with symbol ϕ {\displaystyle \phi } is a linear operator defined by the rule C...
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) is the composition of relations "is a brother of" ( x B y {\displaystyle xBy} ) and "is a parent of" ( y P z {\displaystyle yPz} ). U = B P is equivalent...
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Octol (section Composition)
Octol is somewhat more expensive than RDX-based explosives, such as Composition B and Cyclotol. The advantage of Octol is that it significantly reduces...
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does not deliver sufficient shock to detonate charges comprising TNT, Composition B, ANFO and many other high explosives. Therefore, some form of "booster"...
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The fallacy of composition is an informal fallacy that arises when one infers that something is true of the whole from the fact that it is true of some...
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Scouts were enlisted at the fort. Fort Wingate supplied 100 tons of Composition B high explosives to the Manhattan Project for use in the first Trinity...
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a result, B-flat major is one of the most popular keys for concert band compositions. The scale degree chords of B-flat major are: Tonic – B-flat major...
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George Kistiakowsky (redirect from George B. Kistiakowsky)
produce it on a large scale. RDX was also mixed with TNT to produce Composition B, which was widely used in various munitions, and torpex, which was used...
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