explosive combustion

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• COMBUSTION — La combustion recouvre des phénomènes très variés. La définition même du terme répond à deux tendances différentes. La première lui donne un sens très général. Elle englobe «combustion vive» et «combustion lente». La combustion de l’air dans les… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• Combustion light gas gun — technology is one of the areas being explored in an attempt to achieve higher velocities from artillery to gain greater range. Conventional guns use solid propellants, usually nitrocellulose based compounds to develop the chamber pressures needed …   Wikipedia

• Explosive material — A number of 1.25lb M112 Demolition Charges, consisting of a C 4 compound, sit atop degraded weaponry scheduled for destruction An explosive material, also called an explosive, is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential… …   Wikipedia

• explosive — Any substance the decomposition or combustion of which generates gas with such rapidity that it can be used for blasting, in firearms, or for the generation of power. 31 Am J2d Explos § 1. Material from which through nuclear transformation… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• History of the internal combustion engine — Various scientists and engineers contributed to the development of internal combustion engines: [ Otto engines running at the Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion (WMSTR), in Rollag, Minnesota. (2min 16sec, 320x240, 340kbps video)] *1206: Al …   Wikipedia

• low explosive — noun an explosive with a low rate of combustion • Ant: ↑high explosive • Hypernyms: ↑explosive • Hyponyms: ↑firework, ↑pyrotechnic * * * noun : a deflagrating or nondetonating explosive …   Useful english dictionary

• Poudre à canon ou poudre explosive — Poudre à canon On nomme poudre noire ou poudre à canon (chinois : 火药 pinyin : huǒyào, « drogue à feu » (« médicament à feu »)) un mélange déflagrant de salpêtre (du latin salpetrae signifiant « sel de… …   Wikipédia en Français

• Nucléosynthèse explosive — Nucléosynthèse stellaire Dans le domaine de l astrophysique, la nucléosynthèse stellaire est le terme qui désigne l ensemble des réactions de fusion nucléaire qui ont lieu à l intérieur des étoiles et dont le résultat est la production de la… …   Wikipédia en Français

• four-stroke internal-combustion engine — noun an internal combustion engine in which an explosive mixture is drawn into the cylinder on the first stroke and is compressed and ignited on the second stroke; work is done on the third stroke and the products of combustion are exhausted on… …   Useful english dictionary

• Tonite (explosive) — Tonite is an explosive somewhat used in the late 1800s and early 1900s. It consists of a mixture of equal weights of barium nitrate and guncotton. According to Nitro Explosives: A Practical Treatise by P. Gerald Sanford (available via Project… …   Wikipedia

• high explosive — n. any explosive in which the combustion of the particles is so rapid as to be virtually simultaneous throughout the mass, so that it has great shattering effect …   English World dictionary