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An experimental study is made of a “chemical arc”, a model layered system of solid components, between the end surfaces of which stationary combustion takes place. The rates of combustion of the components in ammonium perchlorate-polyether, ammonium perchlorate-polyethylene, and ammonium perchlorate-butyl rubber systems with catalytic additives (diethyl ferrocene, epoxyethyl ferrocene, and iron oxide) are measured as functions of the distance between the components. A maximum mass combustion velocity is found to exist as a result of the transition from a low velocity (kinetic) to a high velocity reaction regime. The data are in qualitative agreement with theory. The mechanism by which the catalysts affect the combustion characteristics is analyzed.
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Translated fromFizika Goreniya i Vzryva, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 57–62, May–June 1999.
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Strunin, V.A., D’yakov, A.P., Nikolaeva, L.I. et al. Effect of catalysts on the combustion of layered systems. Combust Explos Shock Waves 35, 266–270 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02674448
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