Detonation rate silver azide

The rate of detonation of a thin (0.1-0.5 mm) film of silver azide is about 1550 m/sec that of the same film in an enclosed space about 1700 m/sec (Bowden and Williams [101]). 

According to Bowden and Singh [201] it is not decomposed by a and y-radiation. It shows the rate of detonation 4200 m/s.. According to Wohler and Martin [202] it is less sensitive to impact than lead azide, but more sensitive than silver azide. 

Sukhushin and Zakharov [16] investigated the shock sensitivity and detonation rates for lead azide-silver azide, lead azide-copper azide, and silver azide-copper azide mixed-crystal systems. The most striking effect occurred when the minor constituent was less than 10% of the composition. Such systems are perhaps better viewed as being heavily doped than as mixed crystals. 

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