THE salts of hydrazoic acid are of military interest owing to the fact that many of them are explosive. They range in sensitivity from sodium azide, which is stable, to the heavy metal azides, such as ...

PREVIOUS studies of the decomposition of barium azide have shown 1 that the reaction proceeds at the interface between the anhydrous azide and discrete nuclei of metallic barium formed on the surface.

An investigation has revealed that the cause of a chemical plant explosion in April that killed three people and injured three others in Juye county of Heze, Shandong province, was stainless steel ...