Re: Copper Chromite

We sold some of this to a serious rocket makin' company, so it is in
use in that field.
Don T. wrote:
There are public references to the substance as a catalyst in Ammonium
Perchlorate rocket fuel grains. One from Stanford Research Institute, Menlo
Park c.a. - '71 in particular. Another in the Journal of Chemical Physics
from '63 about initiation of deflagration wave in AP - Cr2Cu2O5 - C pellets
in a high pressure N atmosphere. Probably more if one looks.

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Don Thompson

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"donald haarmann" <donald-haarmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Don T." <-painter-@xxxxxxxxxx>

| As a catalyst for Ammonium Perchlorate in rocket fuel? Or as a paint
| pigment? Paint pigment Copper Chromite Black is known as "Shepherd Black
1D
| (PBk 28)".
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| Don Thompson
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US Patent 3 862 865 for an ammonium perchlorate white sparkler uses copper
chromite. This is
the only pyro use for it in my DB.



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donald j haarmann - eminence grise



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