Accession Number:

AD0474437

Title:

BURNING TEMPERATURES AND PRESSURES OF M18 COLORED-SMOKE GRENADES

Descriptive Note:

Rept. for May-Aug 1964

Corporate Author:

CHEMICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT LABS EDGEWOOD ARSENAL MD

Personal Author(s):

• Haynes, Guy

Report Date:

1965-10-01

Pagination or Media Count:

22.0

Abstract:

Parameters pertaining to pyrotechnic dissemination processes were investigated. Burning-temperature, burning-time, weight-change, and pressure parameters were recorded for the M18, colored-smoke grenade with a thermocouple, from pressure- or weight-loss curves, with a weight transducer, and with a pressure transducer, respectively. Equipment layouts and samples of strip-chart recordings are presented. Burning pressure is usually less than 1 psi however, orifice plugging can increase pressure to about 20 psi. Any one type of munition yields a great variation in functioning data. Burning temperature is lower in red and yellow M18 grenades than in green and violet ones.

Descriptors:

• *COLORED SMOKES
• *GRENADES
• *SMOKE MUNITIONS
• BURNING RATE
• PRESSURE
• TEMPERATURE
• THERMOCOUPLES
• TRANSDUCERS

Subject Categories:

• Pyrotechnics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE