Fingerprints and trace explosives detection requires great sensitivity, which is provided by luminescence and appropriate physical and chemical treatments. Ninhydrin, 1,2-indanedione and other chemicals react with the amino acids present in the fingerprint residue. The chemically treated samples, on which the prints are to be detected, are excited with the blue lines 476.5 and 488 nm of an Argo...

At the end of November 1914 Lord Moulton (1844-1921) became the director of explosives production in the War Office. A 70-year-old jurist may seem an extraordinary choice, but he was an extraordinary man. He was Senior Wrangler at Cambridge, was elected to the Royal Society for research on electricity, and learned about chemistry as a barrister for dye and explosives manufacturers. He assembled...

Several polymers have been used to detect nitroaromatic explosives by a variety of transduction schemes. Detection relies on both electronic and structural interactions between the sensing material and the analyte. Quenching of luminescent polymers by electron deficient nitroaromatic explosives, such as trinitrotoluene, may be monitored to detect explosives. Resistive sensing using carbon black...

The functional capacity of explosives is an important indicator for evaluating the explosive power explosives. Based on motion energy balance and principle artillery launching, this paper designs a evaluation device analysis device, model established. measurement parameters determined according to model; comprehensive testing system was constructed, feasibility verified through testing. results...

We report on the application of sweeping-MEKC, for the first time, using the Environmental Protection Agency Method 8330 stock standard (a mixture of 14 explosives). The use of a traditional MEKC mode provided the LODs (at S/N=3) ranging from 1.5 to 2.9 microg/mL for the 14 explosives standards, which were improved by as low as 3.1-6.5 ng/mL when a sweeping-MEKC technique was used. A set of 21 ...

The solution to environmental problems associated with livestock wastes requires a broad integrated approach. The recovery of valuable products as nitrogen, has become a need in geographical areas with high animal farming density. Ammonia air stripping, combined with absorption, can remove and recover ammonia from liquid wastes. The objective of the present paper is to study the pH effect on am...

Quantifying in-house emissions of methane (CH4) from liquid manure (slurry) is difficult due to high background emissions from enteric processes, yet of great importance for correct estimation of CH4 emissions from manure management and effects of treatment technologies such as anaerobic digestion. In this study CH4 production rates were determined in 20 pig slurry and 11 cattle slurry samples ...