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IN several communications in Nature1–4, the spread of the detonation wave near the point of initiation has been discussed. During 1943–46, we carried out similar experiments at the University of Saskatchewan (sponsored by the National Research Council of Canada). Since our conclusions differ in several points from those in the above-mentioned letters, it may perhaps be of interest to summarize some of our results5.
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More details may be found in our reports on Project XR-84, copies of which are obtainable on application from the National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ont.
NENO and DINA are war-time abbreviations for bis-nitroxyethylnitrooxamide and bis-nitroxyethylnitramide, see Wright, G. F., et al., Can. J. Res. (Jan. 1948).
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HERZBERG, G., WALKER, G. Initiation of High Explosives. Nature 161, 647–648 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161647a0
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