What are Class C explosives?

Examples: propellant explosives (including some smokeless propellants), photographic flash powders, and some special fireworks. Class C explosives: Includes certain types of manufactured articles which contain Class A or Class B explosives, or both, as components but in restricted quantities.
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What are the 3 classes of explosives?

explosive, any substance or device that can be made to produce a volume of rapidly expanding gas in an extremely brief period. There are three fundamental types: mechanical, nuclear, and chemical. A mechanical explosive is one that depends on a physical reaction, such as overloading a container with compressed air.
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What are Class B explosives?

Class B explosives.

Possessing flammable hazard, such as propellant explosives (including some smokeless propellants), photographic flash powders, and some special fireworks.
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Which is more powerful C4 or TNT?

C4 explosives have more complete destructive power compared to TNT and the number of effective explosives required to destroy the concrete with the strength of fc = 229.31 kg / cm2 is 122 g.
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What are types of explosives?

There are 3 classes of explosive materials:
  • (a) High explosives (for example, dynamite, flash powders, and bulk salutes);
  • (b) Low explosives (for example, black powder, safety fuses, igniters, igniter cords, fuse lighters, and “display fireworks”, except for bulk salutes); and.
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The Difference Between High Explosives and Low Explosives



What is C2 explosive?

Composition C

The material was plastic between 0 and 40 degrees C, but was brittle at colder temperatures and gummy at higher temperatures. Composition C was superseded by Composition C2, which used a mixture of 80% RDX and 20% plasticizer.
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What is C4 made of?

The explosive in C4 is RDX (cyclonite or cyclotrimethylene trinitramine), which makes up around 91% of C4 by mass. The plasticizer is diethylhexyl (5.3%) or dioctyl sebacate and the binder is usually polyisobutylene (2.1%). Another plasticizer used is dioctyl adipate (DOA).
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What is the most explosive thing on earth?

Azidoazide azide is the most explosive chemical compound ever created. It is part of a class of chemicals known as high-nitrogen energetic materials, and it gets its "bang" from the 14 nitrogen atoms that compose it in a loosely bound state.
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Is TNT and dynamite the same thing?

You may see some explosives labeled “TNT" that look like dynamite. TNT stands for trinitrotoluene, which is also an explosive but quite different from dynamite. Dynamite is actually much more powerful than TNT.
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What is an M class explosive?

M-80s are an American class of large powerful firecrackers, sometimes called salutes. M-80s were originally made in the mid 20th century for the U.S. military to simulate explosives or artillery fire; later, M-80s were manufactured as fireworks.
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What is a 1.3 C explosive?

1.3C 1.4C Secondary detonating explosive substance or black powder or article containing a secondary detonating explosive substance, in each case without means of initiation and without a propelling charge, or article containing a primary explosive substance.
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How many classes of explosives are there?

Hazard Class 1 – Explosives

The explosives hazard class is divided into six categories based on the kind of explosive hazard: Mass explosion. Projection. Fire.
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What is considered a Class 1 explosive?

Class 1, Explosives:

An explosive is any substance or article, including a device or pyrotechnic substance, which is designed to function by explosion (i.e., an extremely rapid release of gas and heat) or which, by chemical reaction within itself, is able to rapidly conflagrate or detonate.
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What explosives do the military use?

The energetic compounds most commonly used in military explosives include TNT, RDX, and HMX.
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What class is explosion proof?

There are three classes of explosion proof lights, known as Class I, Class II, and Class III. These are the broadest sense in which explosion proof lights are distinguished from each other. The classes are then each broken down further into two separate divisions.
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What is stronger than TNT?

One of the most powerful explosive chemicals known to us is PETN, which contains nitro groups which are similar to that in TNT and the nitroglycerin in dynamite. But the presence of more of these nitro groups means it explodes with more power.
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Can dynamite explode when wet?

Even though the diatomaceous earth takes away some of the dangers of nitroglycerin, there are still problems because the mixture is not stable in damp environments. Water causes the nitroglycerin to leak away. The nitroglycerin can build up, and explode unexpectedly.
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How much does a pound of dynamite cost?

It suggests TNT was $0.44 per pound, or around $5.20 per pound in 2014. These estimates are consistent with that of a Quora commenter.
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What element is explosive with water?

For decades, science enthusiasts have delighted at the famously energetic way sodium and potassium explode on contact with water.
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How big of an explosion is a stick of dynamite?

The force of different varieties may vary 30 to 40 percent, but a properly placed standard stick can blast a 12‐inch tree stump from the ground.
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What is the fastest explosive?

Octanitrocubane has a detonation velocity of 10,100 m/s, making it the fastest known explosive.
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Can C4 destroy a tank?

C4 is a great anti-tank weapon if a LAW is not available. If the C4 is attached to the tank when it detonates, it will immediately destroy the tank.
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What is the difference between Semtex and C4?

There are visual differences between Semtex and other plastic explosives, too: while C-4 is off-white in colour, Semtex is red or brick-orange. The new explosive was widely exported, notably to the government of North Vietnam, which received 14 tons during the Vietnam War.
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Can you make your own C4?

Re: How to make c4

Take 1 teaspoon of matter and mix with 1 teaspoon of antimatter. Enjoy the light show.
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