Transporting explosives could be harmful
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A Swiss cheese-like construction constructed from an explosive materials provides a promising method to safely retailer and transport explosives. The 3D-printed design detonates solely when the holes in it are crammed with a liquid.
Explosives are helpful in industries like mining, however they’re additionally hazardous as a result of there may be all the time a threat of unintentional detonation, like when they’re uncovered to warmth or shaken up in transport. Alexander Mueller at Los Alamos Nationwide Laboratory in New Mexico and his colleagues created an explosive that can’t …