FEASIBILITY DEMONSTRATION USING SHOCK WAVES IN THE SYNTHESIS OF ENERGETIC MATERIALS.
Abstract
The design principles of shock waves from detonating high explosives for the synthesis of energetic materials were applied to noble gas-fluorine chemistry. The goal was to synthesize noble gas fluorides. A shock wave, generated by a detonating explosive, heated a gas mixture to a high temperature, which ionized a fraction of the noble gas and dissociated a fraction of the fluorine. An important feature of the technique was rapid quenching of the product from high shock-wave temperatures. Quenching prevented the product from decomposing to elemental gases. Shock strengths of sufficient magnitude were generated by a cylindrically imploding detonation in nitroguanidine, which is a low-density explosive. Xenon difluoride was successfully synthesized from a mixture of 1 mole xenon to 3 moles fluorine, in quantity sufficient to be detected on a Hitachi mass spectrometer RMU 6D. The nitroguanidine density for this shot was 0.375 g/cc, which generated a reflected shock wave of such magnitude in the gas mixture to dissociate 1.6% of the fluorine.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1967
- Accession Number
- AD0818651
Entities
People
- James L. Austing
- Theodore A. Burgwald
Organizations
- IIT Research Institute