Thermal stability of habit modified ammonium nitrate: Insights from isoconversional kinetic analysis

Thermochimica Acta

Volumn 524, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 165-169

  Vargeese, Anuj A ^a   Muralidharan, Krishnamurthi ^a   Krishnamurthy, V N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

Author keywords

Ammonium nitrate; Decomposition, Isoconversional kinetics; Phase and habit modification; Thermal stability

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM NITRATE; AMMONIUM PERCHLORATES; COMBUSTION GAS; DECOMPOSITION REACTION; ENERGY OF ACTIVATION; ENVIRONMENTALLY BENIGN; HABIT MODIFICATION; ISO-CONVERSIONAL METHOD; ISOCONVERSIONAL KINETIC ANALYSIS; MOISTURE ABSORPTION; NEAR ROOM TEMPERATURE; NON-LINEAR INTEGRAL; NONISOTHERMAL; PHASE AND HABIT MODIFICATION; POTASSIUM FERROCYANIDE; PROPELLANT INGREDIENT; PROPELLANT SYSTEMS;

ABSORPTION; ACTIVATION ENERGY; EXPLOSIVES; GAS FUEL ANALYSIS; MOISTURE; NITRATES; POTASSIUM; REACTION KINETICS; SOLID PROPELLANTS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; TRACE ANALYSIS;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 80052329239     PISSN: 00406031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tca.2011.07.009     Document Type: Article

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