- Author
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Wolfrom, M. L.
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Arsenault, G. P.
- Title
- Controlled Thermal Decomposition of Cellulose Nitrate. Part 7. Carbonyl Compounds.
- Coporate
- Ohio State Univ., Columbus
- Sponsor
- Ballistics Research Laboratories, Aberdeen, MD
- Report
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Technical Report 675-14,
October 28, 1959,
24 p.
- Keywords
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cellulose nitrate
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thermal decomposition
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carbonyl compounds
- Abstract
- An investigation of the carbonyl compounds formed from the ignition of cellulose nitrate was made. Isolated as the 2,4-dinitrophenyl-hydrazino derivatives were acetone, acetaldehyde, formaldehyde, methylglyoxal, glyoxal, mesoxaldehyde and hydroxypyruvaldehye. A gas chromatographic study of the cellulose nitrate (cast from ethyl acetate) ignition products demonstrated the presence therein of acetaldehyde, aceton, acrolein, ethyl acetate, hydrogen cyanide and a now, unidentified substance which is not a carbonyl compound. Ethanol is not a product of ignition of cellulose nitrate. The origin of the compounds isolated is discussed.