Thermal characterization of mixtures of nitrotriazolone with HMX and RDX

Abstract Thermal characterization of mixtures of nitrotria-zolone (NTO) with octahydro-1,3,5,7-tetranitro-1,3,5,7-tetrazocine (HMX) and hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX) has been carried out by means of differential scanning calorimetry and thermogravimetric analysis. It has been found that HMX decomposition temperature remains constant through the whole composition range. However NTO decomposition temperature decreases as the NTO/HMX ratio decreases. The RDX decomposition temperature keeps constant in all compositions studied. The RDX melting temperature decreases few degrees. The NTO decomposition appears at lower temperatures as the RDX content increases.