Castings
Castings, or castable explosives, are explosive materials or mixtures in which at least one component can be safely melted at a temperature which is safe to handle the other components, and which are normally produced by casting or pouring the molten mixture or material into a form or use container.
In modern usage, Trinitrotoluene or TNT is the basic meltable explosive used in essentially all castable explosives.
Other ingredients found in modern castable explosives include:
- Active, energetic or explosive ingredients:
- Aluminum powder
- Ammonium nitrate
- Ammonium picrate
- Barium nitrate
- EDNA
- HMX
- Lead nitrate
- PETN
- Sodium picrate
- RDX
- Tetryl
- Inert ingredients
- Boric acid
- Calcium chloride
- Wax
- Silica, often in the form of silica fume (Cab-o-sil for example)
Common castable explosives include:
- Amatol
- Baratol
- Boracitol
- Composition B
- Cyclotol
- Octol
- Pentolite
- Plumbatol
- Tritonal
- Torpex
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