Vi. Ilin et Ya. Malyshev, KINETICS OF SELF-IGNITION OF HYDROGEN FLUORINE MIXTURES INHIBITED BY OXYGEN AND INITIATION OF REACTIONS IN A CHEMICAL-LASER, Journal of applied chemistry of the USSR, 65(5), 1992, pp. 970-973
The results of numerical modeling of experimental data from a study of
the position of the self-ignition limits in hydrogen-fluorine mixture
s inhibited by oxygen showed that a significant increase in the contri
bution of the branched chain process in autoacceleration of the reacti
on in comparison to thermal acceleration can be obtained with certain
concentrations of fluorine and hydrogen. The chain branching reaction
can be used for initiation of fast reactions in the active medium of H
F lasers.