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Materials processing using chemically driven spherically symmetric implosions

US4790735A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 14, 1986
Grant dateDec 13, 1988
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Expiry dateOct 14, 2006

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  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S376/914
  • WIPO fieldChemical engineering
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A system for obtaining spherically symmetrical implosion of sample materials by directing radiant ignition energy onto a target which includes a spherically symmetrical core of selected sample material concentrically surrounded by a shell of high explosive material. The resulting implosive compression produces hydrodynamically controlled physical and/or chemical and/or metallurgical transformations of state in the sample material.

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