Exploding wires. Volume 4 : proceedings of the Fourth Conference on the Exploding Wire Phenomenon, held at Boston, October 18-20, 1967, under the sponsorship of the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, Office of Aerospace Research, with the cooperat

Front Matter....Pages i-ix Vaporization Waves in Metals....Pages 1-25 Initial Behavior of an Exploding Wire....Pages 27-34 Similarities in Spark and Exploding Wire Discharges....Pages 35-40 Exploding Wires as a Light Source for Quantitative Spectroscopy....Pages 41-50 An “Electrical Equation of State” of Metals Determined by an Exploding Wire Technique....Pages 51-62 Effect of Applied Magnetic Field on the Exploding Wire Phenomenon-II....Pages 63-69 New Evidence for Standing Waves in Electrically Exploded Iron Wires....Pages 71-85 Spectroscopic Investigation of the High-Density Plasma from Exploded Lithium Wires....Pages 87-92 Faraday Rotation Measurements of the Precursor Ionization from an Exploding Wire Discharge....Pages 93-108 Time-Resolved Emission and Absorption Studies of Exploding Wire Spectra....Pages 109-124 Kerr-Cell Time-Resolved Spectra of an Exploding Wire....Pages 125-135 Interaction of High-Powered Focused Laser Beam with Exploding Wire....Pages 137-145 High-Temperature Plasmas Produced by Exploding Wires....Pages 147-160 Influence of Adsorbed Gases on the Emission of X-Rays from Exploding Tungsten Wires in Vacuum....Pages 161-172 Current Distribution for Wire Exploded in Vacuo....Pages 173-183 Correlated X-Ray and Optical Streak Photographs of Exploding Wires....Pages 185-193 Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of Exploding Wires....Pages 195-209 Exploding Wire Detonators: Threshold Burst Current Dependence Upon Detonator and Environmental Parameters....Pages 211-232 The Electrical Conductivity of Metals at Very High Temperatures....Pages 233-252 A Thermal Model of Wire Explosions in Methane....Pages 253-267 Hydrocarbon Formation under Exploding Wire Conditions....Pages 269-279 Exploding Wire Detonators for Use in Experimental Physics....Pages 281-298 An Exploding Wire Self-Healing Fuse....Pages 299-304 Deflagration of Secondary Explosives by Slowly Exploding Wires....Pages 305-318 Capacitance—Voltage Relationships for the Initiation of PETN by Exploding Wires....Pages 319-332 Apparatus with Electronic Crowbar for Chemical Investigations of Exploding Wire Phenomena....Pages 333-341 Back Matter....Pages 343-348