Letters to the Editor will be published, if suitable, as space permits. They should not exceed 1000 words (typed double-spaced) in length and may be subject to editing or abridgment. Kapil et al 1 reported that potassium nitrate ingestion lowers blood pressure (BP) in human subjects. Peak plasma nitrate (NO 3 Ϫ) and nitrite (NO 2 Ϫ) concentrations increased up to 35-and 4-fold, respectively. In...

Pyrolisis reactions, existing in explosive components and mixtures, are very difficult to follow by experiments, because these processes are very fast and proceed with increasing pressure and temperature. The thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) tests and conventional cook-off methods do not give precise and correct answer to the problem of detecting the lif...

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