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IN the course of experiments to determine the feasibility of using liquid explosives to enhance the productivity of oil- and gas-bearing sandstones after hydraulic fracturing, it has been found that dry porous sandstone could imbibe sufficient nitroglycerin-ethylene glycol dinitrate (50–50 NG-EGDN1) to yield a detonable charge.
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Commercial nitroglycerin usually contains EGDN to depress the freezing point and such mixtures are referred to generically as ‘nitroglycerin’.
Taylor, J., Detonation in Condensed Explosives, 179 (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1952).
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HAY, J., SCOTT, F. Detonability of Nitroglycerin contained in Porous Rock. Nature 208, 1197 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/2081197a0
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