Thermal decomposition study of dihydroxylammonium 5,5 0 -bistetrazole-1,1 0 -diolate (TKX-50) was investigated by using TG-DTG and TG-IR-MS and found that N 2 , N 2 O, NH 3 and H 2 O were the main products during the decomposition process. The kinetic parameters (Ea = 138.96 kJ mol -1 and A = 10 12.93 s -1 ) for thermal decomposition reaction of TKX-50 were obtained from DSC profile by differential method and integral method, and the nonisothermal kinetic equation of the exothermic process was da=dT ¼ ð10 12:93 =bÞ3ð1 À aÞ½À lnð1 À aÞ 2=3 expðÀ1:6713  10 4 =TÞ; suggesting that the main exothermic decomposition reaction mechanism of TKX-50 was classified as Avrami-Erofeev equation. In addition, the theoretical detonation velocity (D = 8804 m/s) of TKX-50 at 298.15 K was calculated by a simple method. Finally, the safety parameters of TKX-50 (25 kg) including time to maximum rate under adiabatic conditions and self-accelerating decomposition temperature were calculated to be 142.12 and 129.01°C by using AKTS software.