Use of crystalline boron as a burn rate retardant toward the development of green-colored handheld signal formulations

Journal of Energetic Materials

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 360-368

  Sabatini, Jesse J ^a   Poret, Jay C ^a   Broad, Russell N ^a  

^a US Army ARDEC   (United States)

Author keywords

Burn rate retardant; Crystalline boron; Handheld signals; Pyrotechnics

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960498939     PISSN: 07370652     EISSN: 15458822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07370652.2010.532187     Document Type: Article

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