Geometrical characteristics of detonation diamond particles by the data of small-angle X-ray scattering

The authors have been the first to study morphology of the detonation carbon-the product of detonation decomposition of multicomponent explosives under the oxygen deficiency conditions-by the small-angle A-ray scattering method. The detonation carbon is shown to be a discrete set of particles in the form of oblate spheroids (with an axes ratio ranging between 1 : 20 and 1 : 25), which have been formed by an amorphous carbon component and contain at least one particle of the crystalline phase-the detonation diamond. It is the for first time that the geometrical dimensions of a particle have been calculated.