ELECTRICAL FIELDS AND ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION FROM CHEMICAL EXPLOSIONS

摘要

Electrical fields and electromagnetic radiation generated by chemical detonations of charges ranging in size from 10g to roughly 25 kg were investigated over a frequency range extending from a few cycles per second to 500 megacycles per second.nThe electrical potentials of the expanding explosion products were estimated, and for a 552g 50/50 pentolite charge the maximum value was determined to be 18,000 volts. For bere charges this quantity was considered to very roughly in direct proportion to the charge weight.nExperiments are described which were performed to ascertain the mechanism whereby the electrical fields and EM radiation are generated by chemical detonations, and a model is proposed.