M. : 1999. — 96 s. This Dictionary contains about 300 articles arranged in alphabetical order The titles of the articles are printed in a SHORT-Written font. Words that make up article titles. in the text are indicated by the initial letters . To the numbers denoting the year, the word "year" or "g" may not be added (for example, "1914") References to other articles are given only if they contain additional information on this issue. The title of the article referenced is in italics. Some identical explosives (XB) are presented in the Dictionary in different articles (and some of them under other names). This is due, firstly, to the fact that all BB can be classified in different countries on different grounds (depending on the purpose of this classification). The most common is the separation of them: according to the typical form of chemical transformation in normal operation; chemical nature and composition; sensitivity to various types of external influences. Secondly, in different countries similar in principle explosives may have slightly different percentage composition of explosive components and their names. Third, the UN has developed its own classification of explosives and explosives .. Thus, the presence in the Dictionary of some parallel articles about the same BB or CB is due to the desire of the compilers to present the subject considered in these articles to the reader in terms of different approaches to its classification.