Patent ID: 6997998
Filing Date: 2006-02-14
Classification: C06C

Abstract:
1. A lead-free and barium-free ignition composition that contains at least one initial explosive in a mixture with at least one oxygen-delivering substance, the composition consisting essentially of: at least one alkali metal and/or at least one alkali earth metal salt of dinitrobenzofuroxan as the sole initial explosive, tetrazene as a sensitizer, and at least one of metal peroxides, cerium dioxide, tungsten trioxide, nitrates of ammonium, guanidine, aminoguanidine, triaminoguanidine, dicyanodiamidine, the elements sodium, magnesium, calcium and/or cerium as the oxygen-delivering substance, and further containing a reduction agent selected from the group consisting of carbon, metal powders of boron, cerium, titanium, zirconium and/or silicon, metal alloys, metal sulfides and metal hydrides.