Title: Improved dry ammonium nitrate blasting agents
Application Number: 87105381 Application Date: 1987.08.05
Publication Number: 1017653 Publication Date: 1988.04.13
Approval Pub. Date: Granted Pub. Date:
International Classifi-cation: C06B31/28
Applicant(s) Name: Exxon Chemical Patents Inc. Address:
Inventor(s) Name: Harold Erich Bachman;Ralph S. Totman
Attorney & Agent: CHEN JIZHUANG LUO YINGMING
Abstract:
    Dry, free-flowing ammonium nitrate explosive compositions comprising a mixture of particulate ammonium nitrate, carbonaceous fuel and at least one carbonaceous fuel-soluble polymer selected from the group consisting of (1) polymers characterized by an h/c value of at least about 1, and (2) polymers characterized by an h/c value of less than 1 and by a viscosity average molecular weight of at least about 90,000.
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