Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Composition H6

Index Composition H6

Composition H6 is a castable military explosive mixture composed of the following percentages by weight. [1]

17 relations: Aluminium, Amatol, Calcium chloride, Casting, Composition C, Depth charge, Explosive material, Minol (explosive), Naval mine, Paraffin wax, Phlegmatized explosive, Powder, RDX, TNT, Torpedo, Torpex, Tritonal.

Aluminium

Aluminium or aluminum is a chemical element with symbol Al and atomic number 13.

New!!: Composition H6 and Aluminium · See more »

Amatol

Amatol is a highly explosive material made from a mixture of TNT and ammonium nitrate.

New!!: Composition H6 and Amatol · See more »

Calcium chloride

Calcium chloride is an inorganic compound, a salt with the chemical formula CaCl2.

New!!: Composition H6 and Calcium chloride · See more »

Casting

Casting is a manufacturing process in which a liquid material is usually poured into a mold, which contains a hollow cavity of the desired shape, and then allowed to solidify.

New!!: Composition H6 and Casting · See more »

Composition C

The Composition C family is a family of related US-specified plastic explosives consisting primarily of RDX.

New!!: Composition H6 and Composition C · See more »

Depth charge

A depth charge is an anti-submarine warfare weapon.

New!!: Composition H6 and Depth charge · See more »

Explosive material

An explosive material, also called an explosive, is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion if released suddenly, usually accompanied by the production of light, heat, sound, and pressure.

New!!: Composition H6 and Explosive material · See more »

Minol (explosive)

Minol (pronounced mine-ol) is a military explosive developed by the British Admiralty early in the Second World War to augment supplies of trinitrotoluene (TNT) and RDX, which were then in short supply.

New!!: Composition H6 and Minol (explosive) · See more »

Naval mine

A naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to damage or destroy surface ships or submarines.

New!!: Composition H6 and Naval mine · See more »

Paraffin wax

Paraffin wax is a white or colourless soft solid, derived from petroleum, coal or oil shale, that consists of a mixture of hydrocarbon molecules containing between twenty and forty carbon atoms.

New!!: Composition H6 and Paraffin wax · See more »

Phlegmatized explosive

A phlegmatized explosive is an explosive that has had an agent added to stabilize or desensitize it.

New!!: Composition H6 and Phlegmatized explosive · See more »

Powder

A powder is a dry, bulk solid composed of a large number of very fine particles that may flow freely when shaken or tilted.

New!!: Composition H6 and Powder · See more »

RDX

RDX is the organic compound with the formula (O2NNCH2)3.

New!!: Composition H6 and RDX · See more »

TNT

Trinitrotoluene (TNT), or more specifically 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene, is a chemical compound with the formula C6H2(NO2)3CH3.

New!!: Composition H6 and TNT · See more »

Torpedo

A modern torpedo is a self-propelled weapon with an explosive warhead, launched above or below the water surface, propelled underwater towards a target, and designed to detonate either on contact with its target or in proximity to it.

New!!: Composition H6 and Torpedo · See more »

Torpex

Torpex is a secondary explosive, 50% more powerful than TNT by mass.

New!!: Composition H6 and Torpex · See more »

Tritonal

Tritonal is a mixture of 80% TNT and 20% aluminium powder, used in several types of ordnance such as air-dropped bombs.

New!!: Composition H6 and Tritonal · See more »

Redirects here:

Composition H-6.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_H6

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »