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Scope of Chemical Explosive Cratering Experiment

Description: A general description is given of the Pre-Buggy chemical explosive experiments. These experiments consisted of a series of single- and multiple- charge detonations designed to refine our knowledge of channel size as a function of charge spacing, and to obtain data on venting of explosion products from a row of spherical charges detonated in alluvium. A basic series of six single-charge detonations and four multiple-charge detonations of five charges in a row was executed in Area 5 of the Nevada… more
Date: May 15, 1963
Creator: Graves, E.; Wray, W. R. & Pierce, R. B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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