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It has been shown1 that many liquid explosives resemble nitroglycerine in their extreme sensitivity to impact if bubbles of air are entrapped in the liquid and compressed during the collision of the impacting surfaces. Under the conditions of both ‘cavity’ and ‘droplet’ impact tests, nitroglycol, methyl nitrate, ‘Myrol’ (methyl nitrate and 33 per cent methyl alcohol by volume), diglycerol tetranitrate, diethylene glycol dinitrate and mixtures of tetranitromethane and toluene (ranging in composition from approximately 15 to 60 per cent toluene by volume) all showed an enormous increase in explosion sensitivity (in decreasing order of resultant sensitivity).
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VINES, R. Properties of Liquid Explosives. Nature 160, 400–401 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160400a0
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