SPECTRAL EMISSIVITY OF FLASH COMBUSTION REACTION STUDY PROGRAM
Abstract
Investigation of the factors controlling duration, brightness, temperature, and spectral distribution of radiant energy produced by chemical flashes. Major achievements reported are: (1) disclosure of several chemical reactions which have theoretical flame temperatures greater than 5000 K; (2) achievement of a brightness temperature of 5800 K with a zirconium-potassium perchlorate mixture; (3) discovery of strong line emission in metal-potassium perchlorate reactions; (4) discovery of a very strong time dependency of line emission brightness during the progress of the reaction; (5) theoretical prediction of intense nonequilibrium light emission from doped metal-oxidizer reactions; and (6) experimental verification of the predicted possibility of achieving intense line emission from a metaloxidizer reaction by doping with metal salts.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 05, 1964
- Accession Number
- AD0430298
Entities
People
- J. M. Gerhauser