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Alone, or Metals, or Metal compounds Mellor, 1940, Vol. 8, 327 1967, Vol. 8, Suppl. 2.2, 84, 96 It is an explosive of positive oxygen balance, less stable than ammonium nitrate, and has been studied in detail. Stable on slow heating to 300°C, it decomposes explosively on rapid heating or under confinement. Presence of zinc, copper, most other metals and their acetylides, nitrides, oxides or sulfides cause flaming decomposition above the m.p. (70°C). Commercial cobalt (cubes) causes an explosion also. 

Suppl. 67). Laboratory fires have been reported, cansed by contact of moisture with a potassium bromate, malonic acid, and cerinm ammoninm nitrate mixtnre, setting a high exothermic reaction (Bartmess et al. 1998). Bromates ignite when mixed with concentrated mineral acids, lead acetate, or phospho-ninm iodide, PH4I. Finely divided mixtures of bromates with finely divided metals, phosphorus, sulfur, or metal sulfides can explode when heated or subjected to friction (Mellor 1946). 

Among the metals, sodium reduces ammonium nitrate to disodium nitrite, a yellow explosive substance (Mellor 1946, Suppl. 

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