Author: Bowden, F P & Yoffe, A D
Title: Fast Reactions In Solids
Description: Butterworths Scientific Publications, 1958, 1st edition. Cloth, dj, F/VG. x+164pp, 82 b/w illustrations, index, dustjacket a little rubbed at the edges & yellowed to the spine, SIGNED by both authors on the endpaper the authors giving thanks to the fellow scientist who read the manuscript & made helpful suggestions towards the finished book. Hardback with dustjacket. ¶ Detailed monograph on the explosive decomposition of a crystal when exposed to heat, light, shock or radiation. Much of the research was experimental at the time of writing.

Keywords: explosives, chemistry, science, crystaline decomposition