2010 ACS Calendar
The American Chemical Society have publsihed, online and in hard copy, their 2010 “Colors of Chemistry” calendar.
January references the Journal of Pyrotechnics paper Copper in Pyrotechnics
It is well worth a download of the calendar, or seeing if you can get a hard copy - it contains some nice images
Share on FacebookBook Review: Initiation of Explosives & Pyrotechnic Materials
By: Jean-Rene Duguet – R&D Manager and Consultant in Pyrotechnics.
Preface by: Dr Attie Goosen
Published by: Cultures et Techniques – cultures.techniques@hotmail.fr
ISBN: 978-2-918209-02-7
Price: 50Euros
This small paperback book is packed with information on the chemistry and mechanics of initiation and has extensive chapters on:-
- General outline
- Explosives and Production Processes
- Initaitors and Related Devices
- Metrology and Safety
There is extensive detail of the physical characteristics of initiating substances, together with formulations and a good section on sensitivity of various initiating explosives. However the book is somewhat frustrating in so much that the scale and clarity of diagrams and images varies widely, and chemical formulae are inconsistently portrayed. It is also expensive for a 221page paperback (50 Euros) and I felt that I could have certainly lived with a smaller and more consistent typeface throughout if it left more room for bigger diagrams or had reduced the size and price of the book as a result.
Nevertheless I would recommend this book for the bookshelves of practitioners in almost any area of pyrotechnics and explosives – initiation is often poorly understood, and this book does much to inform the reader in this most important subject.
Reviewed by Dr Tom Smith – Davas Ltd
Share on FacebookGrass Tree Gum – Reprint of 1858 Article
The following was brought to our attention by Barry Sturman.
It originally appeared in Quarterly Journal and Transactions of the Pharmaceutical Society of Victoria, Vol. 1, No. 3 (1858) pp 119–120.
CORRESPONDENCE. GRASS TREE GUM—(AUSTRALIAN DRAGON’S BLOOD) Letter from Dr. McCrea, Chief Medical Officer. C. M. O. Office, Melbourne, 23rd May, 1858.
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Ref: JPyro, Issue 16, 2002, pp 76-77
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Review of: Black Powder Manufacturing, Testing, and Optimizing – Ian von Maltitz
Black Powder Manufacturing, Testing, and Optimizing
Ian von Maltitz
Review by J Bergman
As Mr. von Maltitz states in the preface, this work is not merely a second edition of his earlier book, Black Powder Manufacture, Methods and Techniques, as reviewed in Journal of Pyrotechnics No. 7 (Summer 1998). Despite similarities in its content and organization, the new book has been overhauled from cover to cover and has been greatly expanded. This rewriting reflects recent changes in approaches to smallscale powder making and testing methods, as well as a substantial body of new practical knowledge.
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Ref: JPyro, Issue 18, 2003, pp74-75
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Preface to Three Reviews of Pyrotechnics – A P Hardt
Pyrotechnics
A P Hardt
Reviews by B. E. Douda, S. D. Poehlein & S. K. Wilharm and B. Sturman
On occasion, when a book to be reviewed has special significance, we have included more than one reviewer’s comments about it. In the present case we are including three reviews by authors with differing backgrounds, and thus viewing the book from differing perspectives. The first short review was written by one of the persons participating in the publication of the book, and for that reason he thought it inappropriate for him to write a detailed technical review. The second short review was written by a pair of authors relatively new to the field of military pyrotechnics. The third review was written as a more complete technical review of the book. Generally, as a courtesy, book reviews to be published in the Journal of Pyrotechnics are sent to the author, with an offer to publish any comments or response they wish to make. In this case, since the primary author is deceased, the reviews comments were received from a representative of the book’s publisher, permission was not granted for those comments to be published.
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Ref: JPyro, Issue 18, 2003, pp66-74
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Review of: Proximate Special Effects Familiarization & Safety – J. Larry Mattingly, David A. Opperman, MD, Francis “Pinky” Pinkerton
Review of: Proximate Special Effects Familiarization & Safety
J. Larry Mattingly, David A. Opperman, MD, Francis “Pinky” Pinkerton
Review by Stephen Miller M.I.Exp.E.,
After many years of drought, the rain is falling for those praying for a basic technical reference book on stage pyrotechnics. The stage and special effects industry as a whole has been lacking a good, well written, reference book that is actually of use to the technician (there are plenty of titles aimed at the general public, but too few aimed at the practising technician). Although “Britain and America are two countries kept apart by a common language”, I have to say that I am rather impressed. The book is well laid out with chapters devoted to ‘Professionalism, Responsibility & Licensing’, ‘General Application Information’ (including security, permits, local inspectors and of course safety). I rarely have a good thing to say about the state of UK explosives law, but having read these chapters, I now realise that the problems I face are nothing in comparison to those tackled regularly by US technicians.
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Ref: JPyro, Issue 17, 2003, pp 80-81
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