Nitrostarch is a secondary explosive similar to nitrocellulose. Much like starch, it is made up of two components, nitrated amylose and nitrated amylopectin...
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explosive (a mixture of 40% nitrostarch, ammonium nitrate, and sodium nitrate), 1.85 oz (52 g) of a 50/50 amatol/nitrostarch mixture, or 1.85 oz (52 g)...
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Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), a related explosive. Cordite Nitroglycerine Nitrostarch RE factor Merck Index (11th ed.). p. 8022. "How to make flash paper and...
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B. Holmes and Jesse B. Bronstein discovered how to produce a stable nitrostarch while working at DuPont's Eastern Laboratories. Between 1905 and 1908...
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percent nitroglycerin UN 0145 ? (UN No. no longer in use) UN 0146 1.1D Nitrostarch, dry or wetted with less than 20 percent water, by mass UN 0147 1.1D...
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Picrite, wetted with not less than 20 percent water, by mass UN 1337 4.1 Nitrostarch, wetted with not less than 20 percent water, by mass UN 1338 4.1 Phosphorus...
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