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The ignition mechanism and the dependence of the composition of the products of combustion or thermal explosion in a mixture of 2Zr + Al + C on the initiation temperature and heat transfer conditions were studied. Heat transfer conditions were changed by varying the size of the samples and the gaseous medium in which the experiments were performed. Two contusion regimes were found: a low-temperature regime, in which zirconium aluminides formed and carbon and part of the zirconium remained unreacted, and a high-temperature regime in which the reaction products were zirconium carbide and aluminide. Upon re-initiation, the low-temperature combustion products reacted in the high-temperature combustion regime. The observed dependences are due to parallel reactions in the three-component system.
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Original Russian Text © S.G. Vadchenko, D.Yu. Kovalev, M.A. Luginina.
Published in Fizika Goreniya i Vzryva, Vol. 53, No. 2, pp. 54–58, March–April, 2017.
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Vadchenko, S.G., Kovalev, D.Y. & Luginina, M.A. Ignition and phase formation in the Zr–Al–C system. Combust Explos Shock Waves 53, 171–175 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0010508217020071
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