Monday, December 23, 2019

AZIDE of AMMONIUM

The azide of ammonium has a NH stoichiometry. Exploring the PT phase diagram of NH starting from ammonium azide at room PT would be maybe a fruitful project. Perhaps ammonium azide can be induced to phase transition in to a cubic NH pattern of octahedral or tetrahedral or cubic mutual coordination of H and N. It would thus be a 3D H bonded network. The same type of reasoning could be applied to hydrogen peroxide in the PT phase diagram of OH. Achieving a substance with 3D H bonding in its structure would be an important milestone for chemistry as it is so important in biological chemistry etc. where it is known in 0D or 1D only. Also cubic NH may be recoverable at room PT or some condition of P and T in which it could be used as a benign or environmentally friendly rocket propellant alternative to ammonium perchlorate that is now the rocket propellant of choice. The cubic NH substance might cleanly react with liquid oxygen to yield water and nitrogen gases and a lot of energy. I have been thinking about this type of project for 25 years.

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