Journal of the American Chemical Society

The Thermal Decomposition of Nitrate Esters. III. n-Propyl Nitrate1

JB Levy, FJ Adrian

Index: Levy; Adrian Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1955 , vol. 77, p. 2015

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Citation Number: 12

Abstract

Results The results obtained by the decomposition of samples of n-propyl nitrate at 191" for varying periods of time are shown in Table I. The initial pressures of n-propyl nitrate were of the order of 20 mm. Analyses for the n-propyl nitrate, n-propyl nitrite and nitroethane were made using the infrared absorption peaks at 11.68, 12.55 and 6.31 p, respectively. Nitrogen dioxide and nitric oxide were analyzed colorimetrically as before. The presence of ...