Dunnite, also known as Explosive D or systematically as ammonium picrate, is an explosive developed in 1906 by US Army Major Beverly W. Dunn, who later...
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ammunitions and explosives. Explosive D, also known as Dunnite, is the ammonium salt of picric acid. Dunnite is more powerful but less stable than the more common...
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Composition H6, Cordtex, Cyclotol Danubit, Detasheet, Detonating cord, Dualin, Dunnite, Dynamite Ecrasite, Ednatol Flash powder Gelignite, Gunpowder Hexanite...
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by road; it is reached by air (helicopter) or by sea. In 2008, dumped Dunnite in the area was mistaken for rusty rocks. "The Vikings in North America...
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570 1.71 Aromatic Picric acid TNP 7,350 1.70 Aromatic Ammonium picrate (Dunnite) 7,150 1.60 Aromatic Methyl picrate 6,800 1.57 Aromatic Ethyl picrate 6...
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Many picrates are explosives, for example ammonium picrate (known as Dunnite). Some are used as primary explosives, namely lead picrate or potassium...
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of HE, so more is needed to achieve the same effect). Hexanitrostilbene Dunnite Reactive material "shrapnel". Archived from the original on 2011-10-06...
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5 oz) - 853 m/s (2,800 ft/s) APCBC/HE APC Shell M86 3.30 kg (7 lb 4 oz) Dunnite 34 g (1.2 oz) 823 m/s (2,700 ft/s) HE (authorised in March 1944) HE Shell...
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invented by Georg Friedrich Henning, but not used until World War II. 1906 Dunnite is invented by US Army Major Beverly W. Dunn. 1908 The first detonating...
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manufacturing artillery shells filled with picric acid. Ammonium picrate (known as Dunnite or explosive D) was used by the United States beginning in 1906. Germany...
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the time when struck by the same mass dropped from the height of 2cm. Dunnite Picric acid Lead picrate Kaye, Seymour M. (1978). Encyclopedia of Explosives...
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