Stability content limits during storage

A predried powder burns very slowly since the residual solvent acts as an inhibitor. It is not until the content of residual solvent is reduced below a certain limit that the powder attains a usable rate of burning. It also acquires ballistic stability, so that its ballistic properties are unchanged during storage, since it contains no volatile constituents capable of volatilizing spontaneously and thus of modifying the ballistic properties. 

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