xiv CHEMISTRY AND TECHNOLOGY OF EXPLOSIVESoriginal processes used in the German and Japanese explosives industries during
World War II which were revealed after the war mainly in CIOS, BIOS, FIAT
and PB publications.
Although there was an enormous increase in the use of explosives for destruc-
tive purposes in the two World Wars it is still true to say that more explosives
have been used in peace than in war. Modern civilization and modern progress
would be impossible without explosives. Particular attention has therefore been
paid to coal-mine explosives (Vol. III). Also a modest chapter on rocket fuels
has been included in the English edition.
It is a pleasure to express my thanks to my friends for their interest in
this work and their kind assistance. To all of them who helped me to bring my
book up to date and to avoid mistakes so easy in so large a book, I express mywarmest thanks.
My thanks are particularly due to: Professor K. K. Andreyev (Moscow), Pro-
fessor J. H. Boyer (New Orleans), Dr. R. S. Cahn (London), Professor W. Cy-
bulski (Mikolów, Poland), Dr. L. Deffet (Brussels), Monsieur A. Diels (Brussels),
Professor Z. Eckstein (Warsaw), Professor H. Erdtman (Stockholm), Professor
A. G. Gorst (Moscow), Professor J. Hackel (Warsaw), Dr. K. Hino (Sanyo-cho,
Japan), Professor E. L. Hirst, F. R. S. (Edinburgh), Ingénieur Général Fleury (Pa-
ris), Professor R. N. Jones (Ottawa), Mr. H. Konopacki, M.Sc. (Warsaw), Mr. Kos-
ciukiewicz, M.Sc. (Warsaw), Dr. Bernard Lewis (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Ingénieur en Chef
Nicolas (Paris), Professor R. G. W. Norrish, F.R.S. (Cambridge), Professor
(Mrs) E. Yu. Orlova (Moscow), Dr. J. Plucinski, (Wroclaw), Professor E. Plazek
(Wroclaw), Professor A. Quilico (Milan), Dr. S. Raczynski (Warsaw), Professor
D. Smolenski (Wroclaw), Dr. S. Ropuszyriski (Wroclaw), Ingénieur General Taver-
nier (Paris), A. T. Thomas, M. SC. (Orpington), Professor A. J. Titov (Moscow),
Academician A. V. Topchiyev (Moscow), Dr. J. Trommel (Ouderkerk aan de Am-
stel, Netherlands), Dr. R. W. Van Dolah (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Professor T. H. West-
heimer (Cambridge, Mass.), Professor C. A. Winkler (Montreal), Dr. E. Wozniak
(Warsaw), Professor G. F. Wright (Toronto), Dr. Mutsuo Yokogawa (Sanyocho,.
Japan), Professor Sukonori Yamamoto (Tokyo).
My thanks are also due to the following organizations and firms which supplied
me with most valuable information, photographs, diagrams, etc.: Aktiebolaget
Bofors (Bofors), Association des Fabricants Belges d’Explosifs (Liege), Aktiebola-
get Chematur (Stockholm), Draiswerke G. m. b. H. (Mannheim-Waldhof), E. I. du
Pant de Nemours & Co (Wilmington, Delaware), Imperial Chemical Industries
Ltd., Nobel Division (Glasgow), Nitroglycerin Aktiebolaget (Gyttorp, Sweden),
Poudreries Réunies de Belgique (Brussels), Service des Poudres (Paris), Thiokol
Chemical Corporation (Bristol, Pa.), Dr. Mario Biazzi (Vevey).
My thanks are also due to: Miss I. A. Nowak, M.Sc. and Mr. W. Kutkiewicz,
M.Sc. who helped me in collecting the literature references, to Mr. L. Stefaniak,
M.Sc. and Mr. J. Kalinowski, M.SC. for their assistance in preparing the indexes, to
Miss D. Chylinska, B. SC. Mrs. A. Malawska, M. Sc. for their fine skilled editorial