Dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction as a rapid, simple and efficient method coupled with high performance liquid chromatography-UV-Vis detection was used for sample preparation and subsequent determination of carbazole, tri nitro carbazole (TrNC) and tetra nitro carbazole in water samples. The influence of several important variables on the extraction efficiency has been evaluated. The methods works best with chloroform as an extractant and acetonitrile as the dispersive solvent. Under optimum conditions, the calibration curve is linear in the range from 0.007 to 1.75 μg mL −1 for TNC, 0.006 to 1.52 μg mL −1 for TrNC, and 0.008-2.10 μg mL −1 for carbazole. The limits of detection (LODs;at a signal-to-noise ratio of 3), range from 1.7 to 1.1 ng mL −1 , for TNC, TrNC and carbazole. Also, the relative standard deviations (RSD, n 06) for the extraction of TNC (at 174 ng mL −1 ), TrNC (at 151 ng mL −1 ) and carbazole (at 84 ng mL −1 ) vary between 4.1 and 5.2%. The enrichment factors range from 179 to 186. The method was successfully applied to the determination of TNC, TrNC and carbazole in environmental samples.

1,3,6,8-tetranitro carbazole (TNC) as a secondary explosive is used in composite explosive formulations in order to reduce the sensitivity and increase the stability of the explosive composites. In this work, the thermal stabilities of pure TNC and its nanocomposites prepared via three different nanoparticles were studied by thermal analysis, i.e. differential scanning calorimetery (DSC) and thermogravimetry (TG) techniques. Thermal analysis data revealed that the thermal behavior of pure TNC is significantly different from the nanocomposites studied. Pure TNC decomposed completely during a single step in the temperature range 385-425 °C. However, the addition of nanoparticles to the TNC powder leads to higher thermal stability in comparison with the pure TNC. The decomposition kinetics of TNC and its nanocomposites were studied by non-isothermal DSC at several heating rates. Thermokinetic and thermodynamic parameters corresponding to the thermal decomposition of pure TNC and nanocomposites were computed and compared. The results showed that the addition of nanoparticles to the TNC powder has a considerable effect on the thermal stability of the explosive.

The thermal behaviour of 1,3,6‐trinitrocarbazole (TENT) in the form of pure and nanocomposite explosives was examined by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and thermogravimetry (TG). Thermoanalytical data revealed that thermal decomposition of pure TENT is significantly different from the investigated nanocomposites. The results confirmed that pure TENT decomposed completely in a single stage in the temperature range 400–450 °C. Though, addition of the nanoparticles to the TENT powder leads to higher thermal stability in comparison with the pure TENT. Decomposition kinetics of the pure TENT and the nanocomposites were studied by non‐isothermal DSC at diverse heating rates. The resulted thermokinetic and thermodynamic parameters for the thermal decomposition of pure TENT were compared with the nanocomposites.

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