Detonation studies with nitric oxide, nitrous oxide, nitrogen tetroxide, carbon monoxide, and ethylene
Abstract
This paper presents the results of detonation studies conducted by the Bureau of Mines on nitric oxide, nitrous oxide, nitrogen tetroxide, carbon monoxide, and ethylene to evaluate the potential hazards of these materials to explosive shock initiation. Charge arrangements, construction details, and interpretation of results are given. Nitric oxide was observed to be the simplest known molecule capable of detonation-detonating in all three phases. Nitrous oxide, as a solid, nonboiling liquid, and nitrogen tetroxide and carbon monoxide, as nonboiling liquids, could not be initiated to detonation. Ethylene, as a gas at elevated pressure, gave evidence of a mild reaction but did not detonate; as a nonboiling liquid, it could not be initiated to detonation.
- Publication:
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Journal of Hazardous Materials
- Pub Date:
- January 1975
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0304-3894(75)80001-X
- Bibcode:
- 1975JHzM....1..275R