2013 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 07:36:34 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: "Green" flares
 
Greener flares better for the environment

Laura Howes
Chemistry World
August 22, 2013


A discussion about green flares might bring to mind the colour, but the military also cares about their pyrotechnics environmental credentials. ‘You might not think the military and environmentally friendly go together,’ explains Jesse Sabatini from the US Army’s Picatinny Arsenal, ‘but they really do.’

As regulation surrounding soil and groundwater contamination increase, the simple act of training on a military range can have wide reaching implications. Sabatini and colleague Jared Moretti are working to make the tools of the military a little more green and in their most recent work have replaced the perchlorate salts in flares with the cheap and widely used 5-amino tetrazole (5-AT). The goal, stresses Sabatini, was to match the performance of in-use formulations, not just meet the minimum required.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2013/08/greener-flares- environment-5-amino-tetrazole

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Lenny Siegel
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