Journal article
The high-pressure phase behavior and compressibility of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene
Applied physics letters, Vol.93(8), pp.081912-081912-3
08/25/2008
DOI: 10.1063/1.2973162
Abstract
The phase stability and isothermal compression behavior of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) have been established to 26.5 GPa using angle-dispersive x-ray diffraction. P-V isotherms derived from the high-pressure x-ray spectra displayed a slight density hysteresis around 4.0 GPa and a sharp discontinuity at similar to 20.0 GPa. The latter transition is ascribed to a monoclinic-to-orthorhombic first-order phase transition in TNT. The conversion of the isothermal P-V data to the shock velocity-particle velocity plane revealed a deviation from linearity at low up, a cusp associated with the phase transition at high up, and general agreement with the wealth of unreacted Hugoniot data on TNT. (C) 2008 American Institute of Physics.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The high-pressure phase behavior and compressibility of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene
- Creators
- Lewis L. Stevens - Los Alamos National LaboratoryNenad Velisavljevic - Los Alamos National LaboratoryDaniel E. Hooks - Los Alamos National LaboratoryDana M. Dattelbaum - Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Applied physics letters, Vol.93(8), pp.081912-081912-3
- DOI
- 10.1063/1.2973162
- ISSN
- 0003-6951
- eISSN
- 1077-3118
- Publisher
- Amer Inst Physics
- Number of pages
- 3
- Grant note
- NSF; National Science Foundation (NSF) DOE-NNSA; National Nuclear Security Administration; United States Department of Energy (DOE) DOE-BES; United States Department of Energy (DOE) DOD-TACOM W. M. Keck Foundation; W.M. Keck Foundation
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/25/2008
- Academic Unit
- Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics
- Record Identifier
- 9984366029502771
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