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BOWDEN has suggested that micro-Munro jets may play a part in the initiation of non-homogeneous explosive systems1. In addition, he and Brunton have shown that such jets can be formed by impacting a vessel containing a liquid with a hemispheric cavity located on its surface2. In an investigation of possible mechanisms for the initiation and propagation of low-velocity detonations in a cavitated liquid explosive, we have investigated the formation and subsequent behaviour of jets from bubbles in water and nitroglycerin–ethylene glycol dinitrate (NG–EGDN).
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Bowden, F. P., Proc. Ninth Intern. Symp. Combustion, 499 (Academic Press, 1963).
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WATSON, R., GIBSON, F. Jets from Imploding Bubbles. Nature 204, 1296–1298 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2041296b0
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