UV-VIS and FTIR Investigations of Long-Term Aged Explosives. Part 2

Samples of long-term aged TD-50 and tetryl were investigated by UV-VIS and FTIR spectroscopy and bands of products of ageing were obtained. A complicated maximum of nitro groups at 1537 cm-1 in the FTIR spectra of long-term aged explosives was obtained, like in the IR spectra of long-term aged single-based propellants. Ageing process was confirmed by the presence of several maxima in UV-VIS and FTIR spectra of aged products and determination of several characteristics of the investigated explosives (shifts Δ ν, differences in absorbances ΔA, differences in values of Δh*1/2). Ageing was connected with decrease of H-bond formation on the base of decrease of content of oxygen and nitro groups in TD-50 and tetryl.