Plateau Burning of Catalyzed HMX-CMDB Propellants

Like double-base propellants, CMDB propellants show super-rate and plateau burning when they are catalyzed with small amounts of lead compounds. Fig. 8.21 shows a typical plateau burning for a propellant composed of NC-NG and HMX.P I The chemical composition of the catalyzed propellant is shown in Table 8.1. 

The overall order of the reaction in the dark zone defined in Eq. (5.6) is 2.6 for both propellants, irrespective of whether or not the catalyst is incorporated. The 

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