[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: "Green" flares

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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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a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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