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[1] BTTN is used as a propellant in virtually all single-stage missiles used by the United States, including the Hellfire. [2] It is less volatile, less sensitive to shock, and more thermally stable than nitroglycerine, [3] for which it is a promising replacement. [4] BTTN as a propellant is often used in a mixture with nitroglycerin. [3]
1,2,4-Butanetriol is an organic compound with the formula HOCH 2 CH(OH)CH 2 CH 2 OH. It is an colorless, odorless, hygroscopic , oily liquid. Containing three alcohol groups, it is classified as a polyol , similar to glycerol and erythritol .
The stock exchange electronic trading system (SETS) is an electronic order-driven system for trading the UK bluechip stocks, including FTSE 100 and FTSEurofirst 300 stocks. The SETS order book matches buy and sell orders on a price/time priority. On SEAQ, all buys and sells go through a market maker who acts as an intermediary.
US stocks closed mixed on Friday amid a low-volume day of trading following the Thanksgiving holiday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up about 0.3%, or more than 100 points higher, while ...
Quotron was a Los Angeles–based company that in 1960 became the first financial data technology company to deliver stock market quotes to an electronic screen rather than on a printed ticker tape. The Quotron offered brokers and money managers up-to-the-minute prices and other information about securities . [ 1 ]
In November 1979, the Cincinnati Stock Exchange became a CQ Plan Participant and commenced disseminating quotations in mid-1980. The Consolidated Tape Association (CTA) is the operating authority for both the Consolidated Quotation System and the Consolidated Tape System (CTS). [1]
C 5 H 8 N 4 O 12: Molar mass: 316.137 g/mol Appearance White crystalline solid [1] Density: 1.77 g/cm 3 at 20 °C Melting point: 141.3 °C (286.3 °F; 414.4 K) Boiling point: 180 °C (356 °F; 453 K) (decomposes above 150 °C (302 °F)) Explosive data Shock sensitivity: Medium Friction sensitivity: Medium Detonation velocity: 8400 m/s (density ...
Ticker tape was the earliest electrical dedicated financial communications medium, transmitting stock price information over telegraph lines, in use from around 1870 to 1970. It consisted of a paper strip that ran through a machine called a stock ticker , which printed abbreviated company names as alphabetic symbols followed by numeric stock ...