PYROTECHNIC OXIDIZERS

AMPERCH   AMMONIUM PERCHLORATE -325 AMMONIUM PERCHLORATE Price: $ 9.95 / POUND

Ammonium Perchlorate [NH4ClO4] -325 MESH white powder. 

A primary oxidizer in many star compositions and other effects. Very impressive colour compositions can be made with it, but their burn rate is often too low for use in star compositions. For lance work and torches slow burning is an advantage and it is therefore commonly used in these items. Produces intense blues and reds when used with copper salts and strontium salts, however mixing with chlorates can create an unstable composition.

Ammonium perchlorate is also used in composite rocket propellants, including the propellants used in the solid propellant boosters used for the space shuttle. The decomposition products of ammonium perchlorate are all gasses that are very beneficial for rocket propellants

It crystallizes in colorless rhombohedra with a relative density of 1.95. It is the least soluble of all ammonium salts with 20 g in 100 g water at 0 °C, due to the large size of the anion. Like all ammonium salts, it decomposes before fusion. Mild heating results in chlorine, nitrogen, oxygen and water, while strong heating may lead to explosions

Ammonium perchlorate can detonate by itself, although it is not very sensitive. Larger amounts and mixtures of ammonium perchlorate with metal powders or organic substances are more likely to detonate. This salt generates toxic gas and extremely high temperature elevation following its decomposition.

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