Lead azide, which is toxic, is a basic component of munitions and detonators. LMU chemists have now synthesized a novel primary explosive that contains no lead. Primary explosives require careful ...

The threat came in an email sent to several hundred people in the capitol Saturday evening, according to multiple published reports. The email warned of “highly lethal lead azide devices” around the ...

The Iowa Army Ammunition Plant in southeast Iowa will reopen on Monday, March 30, after having been closed down since March 12 to review and ensure safe storage of highly explosive lead azide. "The ...

MIDDLETOWN, Iowa — The Iowa Army Ammunition Plant, which paused operations last month over safety concerns, announced Wednesday it is seeking a federal permit to store lead azide, now classified as ...

PREVIOUS work on the decomposition of alpha-lead azide have been performed at temperatures close to its ignition temperature 1,2. The assumption has been made that the products of such decompositions ...

Closed for more than two weeks in March because of concerns about stockpiles of highly explosive lead azide, the since-reopened Iowa Army Ammunition Plant in southeast Iowa now will store the material ...