BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS: Influence of the parameters of a fluorine-hydrogen mixture on the flame propagation velocity
Measurements were made of flame propagation velocities in atmospheric-pressure fluorine-hydrogen mixtures with different compositions. It was shown that, for the same stored energy, diluting a mixture with a diatomic gas such as nitrogen, instead of with monatomic gases, or adding the polyatomic gas SF6 sharply reduced the combustion rate and increased the threshold fluorine pressure at which combustion was converted into detonation under the conditions being studied.