What chemical explosives detonate when exposed to alpha particles or nuclear fission products?
Wikipedia's article on nitrogen triiodide $ce{NI3}$ claims that
Nitrogen triiodide is also notable for being the only known chemical explosive that detonates when exposed to alpha particles and nuclear fission products
referring to the article published 60 years ago [1]. Are there any other examples of chemical explosives capable of that discovered afterwards, or is it still a prerogative of nitrogen triiodide?
References
- Bowden F. P.; Young D. A. The Initiation of Explosion by Neutrons, α-Particles and Fission Products. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences 1958, 246 (1245), 216–219. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1958.0123.
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Wikipedia's article on nitrogen triiodide $ce{NI3}$ claims that
Nitrogen triiodide is also notable for being the only known chemical explosive that detonates when exposed to alpha particles and nuclear fission products
referring to the article published 60 years ago [1]. Are there any other examples of chemical explosives capable of that discovered afterwards, or is it still a prerogative of nitrogen triiodide?
References
- Bowden F. P.; Young D. A. The Initiation of Explosion by Neutrons, α-Particles and Fission Products. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences 1958, 246 (1245), 216–219. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1958.0123.
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Wikipedia's article on nitrogen triiodide $ce{NI3}$ claims that
Nitrogen triiodide is also notable for being the only known chemical explosive that detonates when exposed to alpha particles and nuclear fission products
referring to the article published 60 years ago [1]. Are there any other examples of chemical explosives capable of that discovered afterwards, or is it still a prerogative of nitrogen triiodide?
References
- Bowden F. P.; Young D. A. The Initiation of Explosion by Neutrons, α-Particles and Fission Products. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences 1958, 246 (1245), 216–219. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1958.0123.
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Wikipedia's article on nitrogen triiodide $ce{NI3}$ claims that
Nitrogen triiodide is also notable for being the only known chemical explosive that detonates when exposed to alpha particles and nuclear fission products
referring to the article published 60 years ago [1]. Are there any other examples of chemical explosives capable of that discovered afterwards, or is it still a prerogative of nitrogen triiodide?
References
- Bowden F. P.; Young D. A. The Initiation of Explosion by Neutrons, α-Particles and Fission Products. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences 1958, 246 (1245), 216–219. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1958.0123.
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I would suspect any highly sensitive explosive is theoretically capable to do that, depending on how close you are to the point where it would just thermally explode. They checked "Crystals of lead azide, silver azide, cadmium azide, silver acetylyde and nitrogen iodide". The four with heavy metal ions don't work, I guess it makes some sense that those can (better) absorb a very local energy surge like from an alpha particle.
My list of suspects would thus include organic ozonides, peroxides, azides and other compounds that only contain CNO.
And basically anything that is known to sometimes explode without an obvious external triggering event.
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I would suspect any highly sensitive explosive is theoretically capable to do that, depending on how close you are to the point where it would just thermally explode. They checked "Crystals of lead azide, silver azide, cadmium azide, silver acetylyde and nitrogen iodide". The four with heavy metal ions don't work, I guess it makes some sense that those can (better) absorb a very local energy surge like from an alpha particle.
My list of suspects would thus include organic ozonides, peroxides, azides and other compounds that only contain CNO.
And basically anything that is known to sometimes explode without an obvious external triggering event.
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(not really an answer here, but anyway ...)
I would suspect any highly sensitive explosive is theoretically capable to do that, depending on how close you are to the point where it would just thermally explode. They checked "Crystals of lead azide, silver azide, cadmium azide, silver acetylyde and nitrogen iodide". The four with heavy metal ions don't work, I guess it makes some sense that those can (better) absorb a very local energy surge like from an alpha particle.
My list of suspects would thus include organic ozonides, peroxides, azides and other compounds that only contain CNO.
And basically anything that is known to sometimes explode without an obvious external triggering event.
answered 1 hour ago
Karl
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(not really an answer here, but anyway ...)
I would suspect any highly sensitive explosive is theoretically capable to do that, depending on how close you are to the point where it would just thermally explode. They checked "Crystals of lead azide, silver azide, cadmium azide, silver acetylyde and nitrogen iodide". The four with heavy metal ions don't work, I guess it makes some sense that those can (better) absorb a very local energy surge like from an alpha particle.
My list of suspects would thus include organic ozonides, peroxides, azides and other compounds that only contain CNO.
And basically anything that is known to sometimes explode without an obvious external triggering event.
answered 1 hour ago
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(not really an answer here, but anyway ...)
I would suspect any highly sensitive explosive is theoretically capable to do that, depending on how close you are to the point where it would just thermally explode. They checked "Crystals of lead azide, silver azide, cadmium azide, silver acetylyde and nitrogen iodide". The four with heavy metal ions don't work, I guess it makes some sense that those can (better) absorb a very local energy surge like from an alpha particle.
My list of suspects would thus include organic ozonides, peroxides, azides and other compounds that only contain CNO.
And basically anything that is known to sometimes explode without an obvious external triggering event.
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