Infiltration combustion synthesis

D. C. Halverson, Z. A. Munir, and B. Lum, Combustion synthesis of ceramic preforms for molten-metal infiltration, in Combustion and Plasma Synthesis of High Temperature Materials, Z. A. Munir and J. B. Holt (Eds), VCH Publishers, New York, NY, 1990, p. 262. 

The question naturally arises is the infiltration of gas from outside necessary for the existence of self-sustained combustion wave Is it possible to ensure that the gas, initially located inside the pores of the sample, is sufficient for the synthesis process Obviously, this gas must be at high pressure, but what is the magnitude of this pressure One can make some simple estimates. Consider the same reaction (1.1) with respect to systems with a single gas reagent ... 

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