Pyrolant

Pyrolant ( English portmanteau of the Greek pyr = fire) describes energetic materials that provide during burn very hot flames.

Pyrolante are metal-based pyrotechnic with any oxidizing agent. The term was pyrolant originally 1992 marked by Kuwahara in an essay on Magnesium / Teflon / Viton to act between such formulations as propellant charges ( engl. = propellants ), and those that merely provide a hot flame and not necessarily as a propellant are able to distinguish.

A similar expression in English is the propellant expression describing either chemically uniform or composite systems that can be used as propellant charges.

Metal -based pyrotechnic compositions, ie " pyrolants ", are generally characterized by a very high combustion temperature (> 2000 K) and high levels of condensed reaction products such as metal oxides and fluorides and carbon black under equilibrium conditions.

Typical P. are as igniting (Zr / ), lighting (Mg / ) and Täuschkörpersätze used (Mg / ); see for example MTV.

A subset of Pyrolants form the Koruskative or Koruskativstoffe. Fritz Zwicky has the expression Koruskativ from Latin coruscare = borrows to consume and thus describes binary material systems, which are capable of exothermic alloy formation or metathesis reactions.