Boron-Metal Fluoride Reactive Composites: Preparation and Reactions Leading to Their Ignition

What is it about?

Metal fluorides have not been widely used as oxidizers in energetic formulations, despite their attractive characteristics. Here, boron, the most energetically beneficial. non-toxic metallic fuel, which normally is hard to ignite, is combined with two metal fluorides to explore the resulting composite reactive material. It is found that such material ignites readily upon heating, but is insensitive to ignition by electric spark. It is anticipated that these new materials will find uses in propellants and pyrotechnics.

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