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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828425103321

Titolo

Black and smokeless powders : technologies for finding bombs and the bomb makers / / Committee on Smokeless and Black Powder, Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, National Research Council

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1998

ISBN

0-309-17365-5

1-282-08186-1

9786612081866

0-309-52516-0

0-585-14263-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (180 p.)

Disciplina

662/.2

Soggetti

Gunpowder

Gunpowder, Smokeless

Explosives - Additives

Explosives - Analysis

Bombings - Prevention - Technological innovations

Bomb reconnaissance - Technological innovations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-99).

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgment of Reviewers""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""1 Background and Overview""; ""2 Detection of Black and Smokeless Powder Devices""; ""3 Identification""; ""Bibliography""; ""A Biographical Sketches of Committee Members""; ""B Statement of Task and Enabling Legislation""; ""C Committee Meetings""; ""D Taggant and Marker Concepts""; ""E Presentations by Stakeholder Groups""; ""F Committee Site Visits""; ""G Laboratories Capable of Testing""; ""H Regulation of Black and Smokeless Powders""; ""I Glossary""; ""J Acronyms and Abbreviations""