Thermal Behavior and Decomposition Kinetics of Bis(2,2,2-trinitroethyl)-oxalate as a High Energy Dense Oxidizer and its Mixture with Nitrocellulose

Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 1373-1381

  Abd Elghany, Mohamed ^a   Klapötke, Thomas M ^a   Elbeih, Ahmed ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MILITARY TECHNICAL COLLEGE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

BTNEOx; HEDOs; isoconversional method; NC BTNEOx; thermal decomposition

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; DECOMPOSITION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; HIGH SPEED CAMERAS; KINETICS; MIXING; MIXTURES; NITROCELLULOSE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OXALIC ACID; PROPELLANTS; PYROLYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

BTNEOX; DECOMPOSITION KINETICS; DOUBLE-BASE PROPELLANT; EFFECTIVE ACTIVATION ENERGY; HEDOS; ISO-CONVERSIONAL METHOD; NC-BTNEOX; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE(NMR);

ACTIVATION ENERGY;

EID: 85037979393     PISSN: 07213115     EISSN: 15214087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prep.201700179     Document Type: Article

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