Silver acetylide nitrate

Disilver acetylide Silver acetylide-silver nitrate Digold(l) acetylide Barium acetylide Calcium acetylide (carbide)... 

Silver nitrate (or other soluble salt) reacts with acetylene in presence of ammonia to form silver acetylide, a sensitive and powerful detonator when dry. In the absence of ammonia, or when calcium acetylide is added to silver nitrate solution, explosive double salts of silver acetylide and silver nitrate are produced. Mercury(I) acetylide precipitates silver acetylide from the aqueous nitrate. 

Addition of calcium acetylide to silver nitrate solution precipitates silver acetylide, a highly sensitive explosive. Copper salt solutions would behave similarly. 

Contact with silver nitrate solution transforms copper(I) acetylide into a sensitive and explosive mixture of silver acetylide and silver. 

Silver acetylide-silver nitrate, 0569 Silver azide, 0023... 

Silver is a white, ductile metal occurring naturally in its pure form and in ores (USEPA 1980). Silver has the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of all metals. Some silver compounds are extremely photosensitive and are stable in air and water, except for tarnishing readily when exposed to sulfur compounds (Heyl et al. 1973). Metallic silver is insoluble in water, but many silver salts, such as silver nitrate, are soluble in water to more than 1220 g/L (Table 7.3). In natural environments, silver occurs primarily in the form of the sulfide or is intimately associated with other metal sulfides, especially fhose of lead, copper, iron, and gold, which are all essentially insoluble (USEPA 1980 USPHS 1990). Silver readily forms compounds with antimony, arsenic, selenium, and tellurium (Smith and Carson 1977). Silver has two stable isotopes ( ° Ag and ° Ag) and 20 radioisotopes none of the radioisotopes of silver occurs naturally, and the radioisotope with the longest physical half-life (253 days) is "° Ag. Several compounds of silver are potential explosion hazards silver oxalate decomposes explosively when heated silver acetylide (Ag2C2) is sensitive to detonation on contact and silver azide (AgN3) detonates spontaneously under certain conditions (Smith and Carson 1977). 

AgaCa is considered to be inferior in expl props to silver acetylide-silver nitrate, which is described below. AgjCj is more sensitive to shock... 

Disilver Aeetylide + Silver Nitrate (Complex) (Silver Acetylide-Silver Nitrate), AgaCa AgNOj or AgjCjNOj, mw 409.67, N3.42%. Wh pdr,d 5.38(Ref 5) mp-deton ca 212 Ref 6). 

The precipitation of mercuric acetylide resulted in alkali consumption so that titrating the excess hydroxide gave a direct measure of the amount of acetylide and hence the concentration of acetylene in the gas mixture. The more usual method, precipitating silver acetylide from ammoniacal silver nitrate, was unsatisfactory in this case since the carbon monoxide in the product gases reduced the silver nitrate to silver. 

A Computational Model Describing the Initiation of Silver Acetylide-Silver Nitrate Explosive by an Intense Light Source , The Shock and Vibration Bulletin (in press, 1979)... 

Following are some props of silver acetylide which was prepd from ammoniacal solns of silver nitrate deton vel 1880 ra/sec at d (not given) power by Trauzl test 132 cms at d 1.67(Ref 6, pp 304-5) minimum initiating charge for 0.8g tetryl, 0.07g Ag2C2 compared to 0.02g for LA(Ref 2,p 4) beat of expln 400 cal/g... 

Silver nitrate (or other soluble salt) reacts with acetylene in presence of ammonia to form silver acetylide, a sensitive and powerful detonator when dry. In the absence of... 

See Silver acetylide—silver nitrate Sodium dithionite... 

Silver acetylide—silver nitrate, 0566 Silver buten-3-ynide, 1404... 

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