Patent ID: 8101033

Claim:
A gas generant composition comprising: a non-azide, organic, nitrogen-containing fuel; at least one copper-containing compound selected from the group consisting of basic copper nitrate, cupric oxide, copper diammine dinitrate-ammonium nitrate mixture wherein ammonium nitrate is present in the mixture in a range of about 3 to about 90 weight percent, copper diammine bitetrazole, a copper-nitrate complex resulting from reaction of 5 aminotetrazole with basic copper nitrate and combinations thereof; and a quantity of at least one alkali metal perchlorate with a mean particle size in excess of 100 microns, the at least one alkali metal perchlorate being present in a relative-amount of about 1 to about 10 composition weight percent and effective—to result in a gaseous effluent that is substantially free of hydrogen chloride, carbon monoxide, ammonia, nitrogen dioxide and nitric oxide, when the gas generant composition is combusted, said composition consisting essentially of: about 40 to about 60 composition weight percent guanidine nitrate; about 35 to about 50 composition weight percent basic copper nitrate; about 1 to about 10 composition weight percent alkali metal perchlorate in a mean particle size in excess of 100 microns; and about 1 to about 5 composition weight percent of metal oxide burn rate enhancing and slag formation additive.