EXPLOSIVE SUBSTANCE (VERSIONS) Russian patent published in 2017 - IPC C06B25/04 

FIELD: blasting operations.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to industrial explosive substances (ES) used in national economy. Explosive substance contains mononitrotoluene or a mixture of mononitrotoluene and dinitrotoluene and trinitrotoluene in the flaked or granulated form. Content of mononitrotoluene or its mixture with dinitrotoluene in the substance makes 0.1–4.0 wt%. As mononitrotoluene it contains para-mononitrotoluene (p-MNT), or ortho-mononitrotoluene (o-MNT), or meta-mononitrotoluene (m-MNT), or their mixture.

EFFECT: due to containing mononitrotoluene or a mixture of mononitrotoluene and dinitrotoluene reduced is fragility of trinitrotoluene and its dusting, namely in precipitation of the ES from bags the trinitrotoluene dust concentration in the workplace air is less than 0,49 mg/m³.

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