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The agent of the autocatalytic thermal decomposition of aliphatic nitrate ester explosives

✍ Scribed by J. J. Batten

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1985
Tongue
English
Weight
339 KB
Volume
17
Category
Article
ISSN
0538-8066

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✦ Synopsis

The condensed-phase thermal decomposition of aliphatic nitrate ester explosives is generally autocatalytic. The object of this article is to show that the agent of the autocatalysis is not the product NO2, as is generally believed, but to suggest that it may be the product formaldehyde.

Aliphatic nitrate ester explosives, such as glycerol trinitrate (nitroglycerine, NG), ethylene glycol dinitrate (EGDN), cellulose nitrate (nitrocellulose, NC), and pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), are among the most powerful explosives available [ll. It is therefore surprising that there is little basic data about the mechanism of their thermal decomposition [l-21].* The gaseous products of the thermal decomposition of these explosives, and other structurally related compounds such as the mono-nitrates RCHZ0NO2, usually consist of CHzO and NOz, together with COz, CO, NO, NzO, Nz, HzO, Hz, and

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