Mass spectrometric investigation of the thermal decomposition of RDX

✍ Scribed by Milton Farber; R.D. Srivastava

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 298 KB
• Volume: 64
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(79)80519-9

✦ Synopsis

The products of thermal decomposition of 1,3,5trinitrohe~.d~dro 1,3,5trkzine (RDS) in vacuum hae been determined mass spectrometriczdly belo\ and above the melting point. Employins a cell with an elongated orifice to form d collimated beam, RDS decomposition products acre identified M ithin 3 fea microseconds after lea\ ing the cell. -4 mayor mode of thr decomposition was the splitting of the RDS molecule into txxo unst&ble fragments st 146 and 74 .unu, 3s determined by mass spectrometry-These fragments underPent further decomposition into numerous smaller species. A second mode of decomposition was the remov31 of the NO, _ "roups from the ring, le3v:ng dlhydro-sym-triazine as .I product. No evidence of the RDS molecule ~3s found in the vaporphase.