7 definitions by michael jackson

RDX

RDX is an acronym for Royal Demolition eXplosive. It is the common name in the UK for the explosive cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine. RDX is a fairly insensitive high-order explosive, with a VoD (Velocity of Detonation) of over 8000 m/s at maximum density. It is almost never used alone because of the difficulty getting it to max density for best performance, but is used in mining, demolitions, and by the military in many composite explosives, including the US Army's composition A (granulated RDX and a wax binder), B (castable 50:50 RDX and TNT), and C (RDX and inert plasticiser 91:9). RDX also finds use as the base charge in blasting caps, initiated by a mixture of lead azide and lead styphnate. It is, contrary to what the misinformed definer earlier stated, not easier to manufacture than TNT and trinitrophenol; it is simply cheaper to manufacture, requiring only paraformaldehyde, ammonium nitrate, and acetic anhydride to produce, rather than large volumes of nitric and sulfuric acids. An alternate route using anhydrous nitric acid to destructively nitrate hexamethylenetetramine is favored by clandestine chemists because of the difficulty, at least in the USA, of obtaining acetic anhydride. It is also cheaper to produce here than TNT and TNP, though it requires much better temperature control and takes quite a bit more work than the aforementioned compounds to synthesize in the home lab.

RDX is much too expensive and difficult to produce to be practical for clandestine explosives production, except as the base charge in initiators. A better choice would be cheap ammonium nitrate mixtures, such as ANFO or ANNM.

by michael jackson January 26, 2005

northpaw

to be right-handed or to use your right hand dominantly

The batter at the plate was swinging northpaw

by michael jackson March 29, 2005

bizzowned

To be completly owned in a dramatic fasion. It's like being owned times a million.

Steve: Dude, mike owned you at Socom
Gary: omfg who cares, i totally bizzowned his ass the next day.
Steve: oh WOW nevermind, you defiently way better than him.

by michael jackson December 8, 2004

killing cops

A well known song by my band.Everyone loves it and it discusses the reasons why cops are fun to kill....suckers

killin cops its wat i do its wat i do

by michael jackson December 7, 2004

TOK

an extremely boring and useless subject,amongst the useless shit you learn in school,TOK has got to be by far the most useless piece of shit ever to have been invented by the stupid mother fuckers who invented school in the first place.Thanks for nothing shitheads.

Oh god we have TOK fuuuuuuuuuuuk.

by michael jackson December 7, 2004

tancula

the americanized last name of 1/4 pollock named nate

Woah, that tancula kid sure can dance

by michael jackson April 26, 2004

your mom

a word spit out at any given time or place when someone (most likely a complete idiot) has absolutely no idea what to say

Hilary: Have you beeen havin a affair?!
Bill: uhh...
Hilary: Tell me! Who have you been doin stuff with lately?
Bill: YOUR MOM!

by michael jackson November 22, 2003