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In this chapter, we have decided to summarize substances that are not very well described in open literature. There are three groups of substances that we consider interesting enough to mention here—salts of nitramines, organophosphates, and hydrazine nitrates.
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Matyáš, R., Pachman, J. (2013). Other Substances. In: Primary Explosives. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28436-6_13
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