In one, powdered aluminum is compressed by explosive shock around a mesh of steel piano wires.
It uses "susceptor plates" - a thin layer of powdered aluminum laminated under plastic that absorbs microwave energy and heats to a high temperature.
A pinch of powdered aluminum tossed in a fireplace will prove this.
The powdered aluminum badly coated Ebsen's lungs, leaving him near death.
They are ungainly looking vehicles, little more than a rocket motor powered by powdered aluminum and liquid oxygen, both scraped up from the lunar regolith.
Chromic oxide is mixed with powdered aluminum the ratio 3:1 and is placed in a large fire clay crucible.
Some explosives incorporate powdered aluminum to increase their blast and detonation temperature, but this addition generally results in decreased performance of the shaped charge.
Eighty percent of their weight is made up of a gel consisting of polystyrene, ammonium nitrate, and powdered aluminum.
These freighters are powered by rockets that burn powdered aluminum and oxygen, both obtained from the lunar soil.
Ammonium nitrate and powdered aluminum.