“…Unfortunately, their application is still plagued by developmental problems relating to their thermal stability, storability, impact and friction sensitivity, and hygioscopicity (36). The research effort in this field of high energy oxidizers is still in its infantile stages; cnly now, are papers starting to appear in this field (156)(157)(158)(159)(160)(161)(162)(163)(164)(165). The only general remarks that can be made is that they usually melt around 200°C (36) and that they usually decompose in a manner similar to ammonium perchlorate, i.e., they gc through a dissociative gasification step followed by an exCthermic gas-phase reaction stage (36,(160)(161)(162).…”