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Thermal Decomposition of 3-Nitro-1,2,4-Triazole-5-One (NTO) and Nanosize NTO Catalyzed by NiFe2O4

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Nanosize Nickel ferrite (NiF) was synthesized by the co-precipitation methods, and its effect as a 5% by mass additive was studied on the thermal decomposition of micrometer and nanometer size NTO. In the presence of a 5% NiF additive, the thermal decomposition peak temperature of NTO was decreased from 276.36 to 260.18 °C and that of nanoNTO was decreased from 261.38 to 258.89 °C (β = 10 °C min−1). The kinetics parameters confirm the catalytic activity of NiF for the thermal decomposition of NTO, and nNTO as the parameters such as activation energy (NTO =  ~ 25.45% and nNTO =  ~ 45.94% decrement), and pre-exponential factor (NTO =  ~ 21.94% and nNTO =  ~ 43.12% decrement) were decreased when 5% NiF additive was added to NTO, and nNTO. The rate of the decomposition process was increased in the presence of a 5% NiF catalyst, indicating the faster thermal decomposition of both NTO, and nNTO in the presence of a nickel ferrite catalyst.

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Authors RS is thankful to DST (SR/NM/NT-1014/2016 (G)) for providing Junior Research Fellowship. The authors are grateful to the Department of Chemistry for the research facility, and the Department of Physics, Sardar Patel University, India, for providing XRD and Raman Facility.

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The present work was funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi, India (SR/NM/NT-1014/2016 (G)).

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    Pragnesh N. Dave, Ruksana Sirach & Riddhi Thakkar

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Dave, P.N., Sirach, R., Thakkar, R. et al. Thermal Decomposition of 3-Nitro-1,2,4-Triazole-5-One (NTO) and Nanosize NTO Catalyzed by NiFe2O4. Arab J Sci Eng 48, 467–474 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-022-07208-3

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