Thermal Decomposition and Burning of Ammonium Perchlorate
Abstract
Ammonium perchlorate NH4ClO4 was first synthesized by Serullas in 1831. Since the 1900s it has been used as an oxidizing agent in various explosives, powdered, and pyrotechnical mixtures. The production of ammonium perchlorate and the quality of the conduct obtained have been described earlier. The physicochemical properties of ammonium perchlorate have been described with sufficient detail in manuals and monographs. The heat of formation (-DeltaH298) of crystalline NH4ClO4 is indicated as equal to 69.42 kcal/g-mole. Thermal decomposition of ammonium perchlorate was studied by Naoum and Aufschlager, Kast, Dode, Bircumshaw and Newman, Bircumshaw and Phillips, Galwey and Jacobs, Hermoni and Salmon, Solymosi and Revesz. The process of its burning (without additions of combustible substitutes) was studied by Adams, Neumen, and Robins, Friedman, Nugent, Rumbel, and Scurlock, and also by us. In recent years a number of works have appeared in which the burning process of mixtures of NH4ClO4 with various organic substances were studied, for example; many of these works found reflections in literary reviews. Our study is a part of an investigation whose end purpose is to explain the mechanism of exothermic decomposition of ammonium salts.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 19, 1963
- Accession Number
- AD0298657
Entities
People
- A. A. Shildlovskiy
- L.f. Shmagin
Organizations
- National Air and Space Intelligence Center