title: Impact sensitivity and crystal lattice compressibility/free space.
abstract: There is considerable evidence, which we discuss, indicating that compressibility and available free space in the crystal lattice are among the factors that govern the sensitivity of an explosive compound. Expanding and extending earlier work, we demonstrate, for 25 explosives, that there is an overall general tendency for greater impact sensitivity as the estimated free space per molecule increases. More specific relationships can be discerned by looking at subgroups of the compounds. The nitramine sensitivities, most of which are quite high, increase nearly linearly but only very gradually with free space. The nitroaromatics cover a wide range of sensitivities but all have an approximately similar intermediate level of free space. The remaining types of compounds show a reasonable sensitivity-free space relationship with one outlier: FOX-7 (1,1-diamino-2,2-dinitroethylene).
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, 70148, USA, ppolitze@uno.edu.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Politzer
authors.forename: Jane S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Murray
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