PREDETONATION OPTICAL-BREAKDOWN SPECTRUM OF SILVER AZIDE

Time-resolved predetonation absorption spectra of silver azide were me asured using the ''spectrum per pulse'' technique. An analogy is obser ved between the behavior of the absorption spectra at the initial stag es of explosive decomposition and radiolysis. From the character of th e spectra it is inferred that during the explosive decomposition of Ag N3 the formation of N-2(-) radicals precedes the formation of N-4(-) r adicals. (C) 1995 American Institute of Physics..