The
Solid Propellant Engineering Series
Volume
1
Safety
Manual
for
Experimental & Amateur Rocket Scientists
This is our best-selling
book, for more than five years.
By a
rocket engineer with more than 45 years working in pyrotechnic, fireworks,
rocket, fuse, igniter, and explosives factories, this unique book is intended
to save life and limb of anyone thinking about mixing chemicals or building
a rocket.
Absolutely
the best book around for the "hands-on" experimenter working with black
powder or other rocket propellants, oxidizers, and fuels; rocket motors
and pyro devices; blasting caps and detonators; and every kind of highly-energetic
formulation.
Before
you start weighing those ingredients, get this book and study it.
Beware of those incompatible chemical mixtures that can go off when you
least expect it. Know how to keep your body grounded while you work,
preventing those tiny static electric charges that can end it all in a
microsecond. Learn the right ways--the safe ways--to powder and blend
your chemicals. This is knowledge that can save your life. Unless
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The comprehensive
text covers every segment of chemicals, grinding, mixing, blending, pressing,
and formulating high-energy propellants. This exceptional volume
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER
1: HAZARDS AND SAFETY
Introduction
Prevention
Containment
Isolation
Safe
Working Conditions
Fire
Protection
Static
Electricity
Storage
Conditions
Storage
Magazines
Air
Contamination
Toxic
Chemicals
Noise
Basic
Tools
General
Methods of Handling
Safety
Incompatible Materials
About
Chlorates
Other
Incompatible Materials
Pyrophorics
and Hypergolics
Weighing
Scooping
Mixing
Handling
Black Powder
Handling
Flash Powder
Industry
Safety Standards and Procedures
Classification
of Hazardous Materials
Shipping
Hazardous Materials
CHAPTER
2: CHEMICALS
Introduction
Reactivity
and Inertness
Fuels
Chlorates
Toxic
and Hazardous Chemicals
Combustibility
Properties
CHAPTER
3: CHEMICAL MILLING AND MIXING
Introduction
Granulation,
Grinding, and Screening
Grinding
Safety
Mortar
and Pestle
Coffee
Grinders
Ball
Milling
Mixing
and Blending
Manual
Mixing
Diapering
Screening
Tumbler
Sifting
Mechanical
Mixing
V-Tube
Mixing
CHAPTER
4: PYROTECHNIC COMPOSITIONS AND FORMULATIONS
Introduction
Solid-Fuel
Rocket Propellants
Ignitability
and Reactivity
Rate
of Burn
General
Chemistry of Pyrotechnic Formulations
Fuel-Oxidizer
Relationships
Pyrotechnic
Oxidizers
Pyrotechnic
Fuels
Metallic
Fuels
Metallic
Fuel Treatments
Particle
Size
Composition
Sensitivity
Counteracting
Acids in Formulations
Particularly
Dangerous Formulations
APPENDICES
Appendix
A: Comprehensive List of Explosive Substances
Appendix
B: Prohibited Chemicals Lists
Appendix
C: NASA Safety Manual
Appendix
D: The Legend of Santa Barbara
Appendix
E: References for Further Studies about Safety
This safety
manual is also referenced by Dr. Terry McCreary in his excellent new book
Experimental
Composite Propellant: "Provides a great deal of safety information
that is not readily available to the experimenter. Appears to be
more technically correct than the average self-published book. Highly
recommended."
If you
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devices, or explosives of any kind, this
book could save your life!
Prudent technicians will study it most carefully before commencing work,
and keep it handy for convenient reference.
This
is a new, limited-edition, printed with a high-resolution laser printer
(not photocopied)
on high-quality, bright-white, acid-free paper for years of reference use.
91 pages, 8.5-inches wide by 11.0-inches high, and quality-bound for a
key place on your lab bench. This exceptional volume is not available
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