Thermochemistry of explosives

Thermochemistry is an important part of explosive chemistry it provides information on the type of chemical reactions, energy changes, mechanisms and kinetics which occur when a material undergoes an explosion. This chapter will carry out theoretical thermochemical calculations on explosive parameters, but it must be noted that the results obtained by such calculations will not always agree with those obtained experimentally, since experimental results will vary according to the conditions employed. 

Thermochemistry is an important part of explosive chemistry it provides information on the type of chemical reactions, energy changes, mechanisms, and kinetics that occur when a material undergoes an explosion [4], 

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Azides, Thermochemistry of Explosive Azides was discussed by P. Gray T.E. Waddington in PrRoySoc 235, 106-10(1956)... 

In Appendix II of Cook s book entitled "Calculations of Products of Detonation is described on pp 386-90 the thermochemistry of explosions... 

M,A.Cook et al, JChemPhys 24, 191-201 (1956) (Rate of reaction of TNT in detonation by direct pressure measurements) 22)Dunkle s Syllabus (1957-1958) (See Vol 4 of Encycl, p XLIX) p 126 (Reaction front in detonation) 135-42 (Thermal decomposition of solids) 23)M.A.Cook, "The Science of High Explosives , Reinhold NY(1958), pp 123-42 (Reaction rate in detonation) 174-87 (Thermal decomposition of soli ds) 386-89 (Thermochemistry of detonation and expltr) 24)F.A.Baum, K.P.Sranyukovich B.I.Shekhter "Fizika Vzryva , Moscow (1959), pp 81-108 (Thermochemistry of explosives) 25)K.K.An-dreev A. F. Belyaev, " Teoria Vzryvcha-rykh Veshchestv Moscow(1960), p 49-56 (Thermal expln in gases) p 56—61 (Thermal explosion in solids) 26) Encycl of Expls PATR 2700, Vol 1 (I960), p A501 (Atomic expins, chain reactions in) 27)F.M.Turner,... 

The thermochemistry of explosive compositions has been discussed in detail in Chapter 5. The Kistiakowsky-Wilson and the Springall Roberts rules both give an approximate estimate for the products of decomposition, which is independent of the temperature of explosion. The formulae and calculations for determining the heat of explosion also assume that the explosive reactions go to total completion. However, in practice the reactions do not go to completion and an equilibrium is set up between the reactants and the products. This equilibrium is also dependent upon the temperature of the explosion Te. 

Akhavan, J., "Ch. 5 Thermochemistry of Explosives," in J. Akhavan, The Chemistry of Explosives. Cambridge, U.K. Royal Society of Chemistry, 1998. 

Raymond N. Rogers, Thermochemistry of Explosives , Thermochimica Acta 11, 131 (1975). 

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