Thin explosive films provide snapshot of how detonations start
Loading video... VIDEO: Videos of test detonations at Sandia National Laboratories of thin explosive films, about as thick as a few pieces of notebook paper. view more Credit: Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Using thin films -- no more than a few pieces of notebook paper thick -- of a common explosive chemical, researchers from Sandia National Laboratories studied how small-scale explosions start and grow. Sandia is the only lab in the U.S. that can make such detonatable thin films. These experiments advanced fundamental knowledge of detonations. The data were also u...
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