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    Amatol is a highly explosive material made from a mixture of TNT and ammonium nitrate. The British name originates from the words ammonium and toluene...
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    Amobarbital (redirect from Sodium amatol)
    Amobarbital (formerly known as amylobarbitone or sodium amytal as the soluble sodium salt) is a drug that is a barbiturate derivative. It has sedative-hypnotic...
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  • filling in World War I. TNT and Amatol were approximately 20% less sensitive to shock and hence safer than lyddite, and Amatol 80/20 cost only 7d per pound...
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    nitrostarch, ammonium nitrate, and sodium nitrate), 1.85 oz (52 g) of a 50/50 amatol/nitrostarch mixture, or 1.85 oz (52 g) of Grenite (a mixture of 95% nitrostarch...
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    bomb (nominal weight) containing about 3,000 lb (1,400 kg) of explosive (Amatol, RDX or Torpex). Most general-purpose bombs, termed "medium capacity'" (MC)...
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    Type Weight Filler I Gr 33 HE 38 kilograms (84 lb) 8.3 kilograms (18 lb) amatol I Gr 38 Nb Smoke 40 kilograms (88 lb) oleum/pumice I Gr 39 Hl/A Hollow-charge...
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  • since moved to the Mulwala Propellant Facility, NSW. Torpex Tritonal Minol Amatol Composition C "A Critical Diameter Study of the Australian Manufactured...
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    explosive blends containing TNT include: Amatex (ammonium nitrate and RDX) Amatol (ammonium nitrate) Baratol (barium nitrate and wax[citation needed]) Composition...
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    without fuse & bursting charge) The same 278 gram BdZ 5127 fuse and 59 gram Amatol bursting charge were used for both types of projectile (PzGr.39-1 & PzGr...
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    (17 lb) of TNT (although sometimes combinations of RDX/TNT/Aluminium or Amatol mixes are used) Diameter: 320 millimetres (13 in) Height: 128 millimetres...
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