Phase Relationships Involving RDX and Common Solid Propellant Binders

1995 ◽  
Vol 418 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Boyer ◽  
P. W. Brown ◽  
K. K. Kuo

AbstractThe solubilities of the common propellant ingredients acetyl triethyl citrate (ATEC) and cellulose acetate butyrate (CAB) and their effects on RDX (cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine) unit cell dimensions were investigated. If there is appreciable solid solubility, solutions will form and will have enthalpies of fusion, melting temperatures, and other characteristics different from those of pure RDX. It is desirable to establish the properties of such mixtures when designing new propellant formulations. Samples were aged at an elevated temperature to speed the formation of solid solutions. A least-squares analysis of X-ray diffraction data was used to obtain the lattice parameters from which unit cell volume and solubility was deduced. Both ATEC and CAB caused an expansion of the unit cell, indicating the formation of a solid solution. The limit of solubility in the ATEC/RDX mixture appeared to be approximately 13 wt% ATEC, while the CAB/RDX limit is above 16 wt% CAB. In both mixes, the cell volume expanded linearly with increasing proportion of binder.

Detailed interpretations of the X -ray diffraction patterns of fibres and sheets of 66 and 6.10 polyamides (polyhexam ethylene adipamide and sebacamide respectively) are proposed. The crystal structures of the two substances are completely analogous. Fibres of these two polyam ides usually contain two different crystalline forms, α and β, which are different packings of geometrically similar molecules; most fibres consist chiefly of the α form. In the case of the 66 polymer, fibres have been obtained in which there is no detectable proportion of the β form. Unit cell dimensions and the indices of reflexions for the α form were determined by trial, using normal fibre photographs, and were checked by using doubly oriented sheets set at different angles to the X -ray beam. The unit cell of the a form is triclinic, with a — 4·9 A, b = 5·4 A, c (fibre axis) = 17·2A, α = 48 1/2º, β = 77º, γ = 63 1/2º for the 66 polymer; a = 4·95A, b = 5·4A, c (fibre axes) = 22·4A, α = 49º, β = 76 1/2º, γ = 63 1/2º for the 6.10 polymer. One chain molecule passes through the cell in both cases. Atomic coordinates in occrystals were determined by interpretation of the relative intensities of the reflexions. The chains are planar or very nearly so; the oxygen atoms appear to lie a little off the plane of the chain. The molecules are linked by hydrogen bonds between C = 0 and NH groups, to form sheets. A simple packing of these sheets of molecules gives the α arrangement.


2000 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-80
Author(s):  
Tomokazu Sasaki ◽  
Megumi Nakahara ◽  
Aya Matsuda ◽  
Takenobu Yamasaki ◽  
Sakae Katoh ◽  
...  

Cytochrome c 6 from the red alga Porphyra yezoensis has been purified and crystallized by the sitting-drop vapour-diffusion method. Two different crystal forms, tetragonal and orthorhombic, were obtained. The tetragonal crystals belong to space group P41212 or P43212, with unit-cell dimensions a = 49.33 (2), c = 83.70 (10) Å. The orthorhombic crystals belong to space group P212121, with unit-cell dimensions a = 46.74 (2), b = 49.42 (1), c = 37.11 (1) Å. Absorption spectra of the crystals showed that the tetragonal form was oxidized and the orthorhombic form was reduced.


1964 ◽  
Vol 33 (266) ◽  
pp. 986-1001 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. H. Kelsey ◽  
Duncan McKie

SummaryRedetermination of the unit-cell dimensions as a 10·406 Å, b 10·813 Å, c 8·926 Å, α 104° 56′, β 96° 52′, γ 125° 19′, has shown that the hitherto accepted unit-cell of Gossner and Spielberger (1929) is in error. The morphological unit-cell of Palache (1933) is related to the new unit-cell, to a high degree of precision, by the transformation Palache → Kelsey-MeKie [001∕01½½∕½00]. Fifteen published and two new analyses indicate that the unit-cell contents approach Na+4 [Fe2-10- Ti4+2] Si4+12O2-40. The common twin axis constitutes the diad of a pseudo-monoclinic cell, the (010) plane of which is dimensionally closely related to that of pyroxenes and amphiboles. It is suggested that the aenigmatite structure is based on silicate chains of pyroxene type cross-linked by Ti4+ and Fe2+ on distinct 6-fold sites, with Na+ on sites of higher coordination number. Aenigmatite from volcanic in contrast to that from plutonic parageneses is often submicroscopically twinned and may be inverted from a high temperature monoclinic polymorph.


1989 ◽  
Vol 53 (371) ◽  
pp. 385-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. De Bruiyn ◽  
G. J. Beukes ◽  
W. A. Van Der Westhuizen ◽  
E. A. W. Tordiffe

AT the time when the hydrated aluminium phosphate-sulphate hotsonite (Beukes et al., 1984a) and its equally rare relative zaherite (Beukes et al., 1984b; De Bruiyn et al., 1985) were discovered near Pofadder, South Africa, very little was known about the unit cells of the other two hydrated aluminium phosphate-sulphate minerals sanjuanite and kribergite, originally described by De Abeledo et al. (1968) from Argentina and Sweden, respectively. Although the Powder Diffraction file (PDF) contains the X-ray diffraction patterns for sanjuanite and kribergite (PDF 20-47 and 20-48 respectively), they had not been indexed nor have their unit cell parameters been calculated thus far.


2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 210-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Chakir ◽  
Abdelaziz El Jazouli ◽  
Jean-Pierre Chaminade

A new Nasicon phosphates series [Na3+xCr2−xCox(PO4)3(0⩽x⩽1)] was synthesized by a coprecipitation method and structurally characterized by powder X-ray diffraction. The selected compound Na3.5Cr1.5Co0.5(PO4)3 (x=0.5) crystallizes in the R3c space group with the following hexagonal unit-cell dimensions: ah=8.7285(3) Å, ch=21.580(2) Å, V=1423.8(1) Å3, and Z=6. This three-dimensional framework is built of PO4 tetrahedra and Cr∕CoO6 octahedra sharing corners. Na atoms occupy totally M(1) sites and partially M(2) sites.


1969 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 1045-1050 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Ramamurthy ◽  
E. A. Secco

CdO and molten CdCl2 react to form CdCl2•2CdO according to the equation:[Formula: see text]The compound CdCl2•2CdO dissociates to the oxide and chloride at 680 °C. CdO and CdCl2 form a solid solution of partial miscibility of 15% by weight of CdO.The X-ray diffractogram of CdCl2•2CdO was indexed to the orthorhombic system. The unit cell dimensions are calculated to be a = 4.38 Å, b = 11.47 Å, c = 9.93 Å with 4 molecules in the unit cell. The infrared spectrum shows a band structure of two doublets and a well-defined band in the region 370–550 cm−1.


1983 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 494-502 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murray H. Brooker ◽  
S. Sunder ◽  
Peter Taylor ◽  
Vincent J. Lopata

Four basic lead carbonates were prepared and identified by X-ray powder diffractometry. These were hydrocerussite (Pb3(OH)2(CO3)2), plumbonacrite (Pb10O(OH)6(CO3)6), and the two adducts MOH•2PbCO3 (M = Na, K). New diffraction data are presented for the latter two compounds; they both have primitive hexagonal lattices with two formula units per unit cell. The unit cell dimensions of the sodium and potassium compounds are a = 5.273 ± 0.002 Å, c = 13.448 ± 0.005 Å and a = 5.348 ± 0.002 Å, c = 13.990 ± 0.005 Å, respectively. Six possible space groups are discussed.Raman and infrared spectra are reported for all four compounds, and compared with those of cerussite (PbCO3); assignment of the spectral features is discussed. Vibrational spectra of the two MOH adducts indicate that they are isostructural, and that the structure contains a well-defined lead sub-lattice, consistent with the X-ray data. The spectra of hydrocerussite and plumbonacrite indicate that lead is present as oxygen-bridged polymeric moieties in these solids. The carbonate ions occupy two and three independent sites in hydrocerussite and plumbonacrite, respectively.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 13412-13420

Chemical preparation, thermal behavior, and IR studies are given for the diphosphate Cr4(P2O7)3.28H2O and its anhydrous form Cr4(P2O7)3. Cr4(P2O7)3.28H2O, is monoclinic P2/m with the following unit-cell dimensions : a = 16.169(1)Å, b = 9.336(5)Å, c = 9.446(4)Å, β = 124.796(5)°, and Z = 4. The total dehydration of Cr4(P2O7)3.28H2O, between 90°C and 450°C, leads to its anhydrous form, Cr4(P2O7)3. Cr4(P2O7)3 is isotopic to V4(P2O7)3, crystallizing in the orthorhombic system, space group Pmcn, Z = 4 with the following unit-cell dimensions: a = 7.25(2), b = 9.38(1)Å and c = 21.00(4)Å. Cr4(P2O7)3 is stable until its melting point at 1050°C. The thermal behavior of Cr4(P2O7)3.28H2O has been investigated and interpreted by comparison with IR absorption spectrometry and X-ray diffraction experiments.


Compositions (accurate to about 1%) of mixed crystals of phenazine (P) and N -oxyphenazine (NOP) were determined from their u.v. absorption spectra. Densities, habit and unit-cell dimensions were found at 20 °C for crystals containing respectively 0, 8, 52, 81 and 100 mole % NOP relative to P; and X-ray diffraction data (F obs ) were obtained for all these and also at — 90 °C for NOP. All are isostructural (NOP being pseudocentrosymmetric) in P2 1 / a with two molecules per average unit cell. Atomic coordinates, bond lengths and anisotropic temperature factors are listed, site-occupation factors for the oxygen atoms being used for the 8, 52 and 81 mole % compositions. A qualitative explanation, in terms of structure, is offered for the anisotropic thermal expansion of NOP.


1963 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. W. Larson ◽  
A. B. VanCleave

X-Ray powder diffraction patterns have been recorded for the alkali dithionates and for barium and ammonium dithionate. The patterns have been indexed and unit cell dimensions determined for lithium dithionate dihydrate, sodium dithionate (anhydrous), and rubidium dithionate. Previously determined cell dimensions have been confirmed in other cases.


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