SLOW DECOMPOSITION OF SILVER AZIDES IN MAGNETIC FIELDS OF VARIOUS DEGREE OF HETEROGENEITY

• Main Authors: L. V. Kuzmina, E. G. Gazenaur, E. V. Sugatov, V. I. Krasheninin
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kemerovo State University 2014-11-01
• Series: Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета
• Subjects: azides of heavy metals; magnetic field; threadlike crystals; slow decomposition
• Online Access: https://vestnik.kemsu.ru/jour/article/view/1155

The paper presents experimental results on the study of the slow process of decomposition of crystals of silver azide in a magnetic field of complicated configurations with different heterogeneity. The study was conducted in unilateral spatial increasing magnetic field and in the field increasing on both sides of the crystal. Quantitative analysis of the degradation products was performed by volumetric methods. The reults show that in an inhomogeneous magnetic field of complicated configuration features of the distribution of gaseous decomposition products on the faces of the crystal are observed. The reason for this effect is that the appearance of an additional component of the Lorentz force, resulting in positive charge carriers, which are future reagents in chemical reactions, concentrated in the region of the crystal combined with the force lines of the magnetic field of lesser density. The experiment showed that in the inhomogeneous magnetic field of low intensity post-processes of decomposition have decaying nature, their intensity and duration increase with increasing gradient magnetic fields; in magnetic fields of above 0.01 T the influence of the gradient is insignificant compared with the action of the field.