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The detonatability envelope of gaseous fuming nitric acid-n-heptanenitrogen mixtures as a function of initial pressure

✍ Scribed by R.L. Potter; D.H. Wayman

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1958
Tongue: English
Weight: 443 KB
Volume: 2
Category: Article
ISSN: 0010-2180
DOI: 10.1016/0010-2180(58)90003-8

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✦ Synopsis

Detonatability limits for the system fuming nitric acid-n-heptane-nitrogen have been established over initial pressures varying from one half to two atmospheres. At the limits of detonatability, the Chapman-Jouguet temperatures are everywhere above 2 900°K, the majority being about 3 O00°K. These limits correlate qualitatively with the. rate of decomposition of nitric oxide as the limiting reaction rate in the sequence of reactions in the steady zone.